Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from India and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Rakim to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by DJ Sneak. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Evens,
The Pretty Things,
Dave Gahan,
Danielle Patucci,
The Cramps,
Pussy Galore,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cluster,
Thee Headcoats,
The Names,
Todd Rundgren,
Sixth Finger,
Stereo Dub,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Freddie Wadling,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Maurizio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Selecter,
Harpers Bizarre,
Erykah Badu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Stiv Bators,
the Fania All-Stars,
Joey Negro,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brass Construction,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Surgeon,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pylon,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Marc Almond,
Lightning Bolt,
Delta 5,
Skarface,
Aloha Tigers,
Lucky Dragons,
Bobby Byrd,
The Index,
X-101,
Pagans,
Tres Demented,
cv313,
Eric B and Rakim,
Guru Guru,
Jacques Brel,
Moss Icon,
Kurtis Blow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Eurythmics,
The Victims,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Niagra,
Essential Logic,
The Blackbyrds,
Lalann,
PIL,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.