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 Malta and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Scientists to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Youth Brigade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hot Snakes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Ronan,
Tom Boy,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Masters at Work,
The Divine Comedy,
cv313,
Deadbeat,
Reagan Youth,
Jawbox,
Joy Division,
MC5,
Cymande,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dead Boys,
Joensuu 1685,
the Bar-Kays,
Joey Negro,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kayak,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lalann,
Derrick May,
Motorama,
Wings,
John Holt,
The Toasters,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cramps,
Young Marble Giants,
Moss Icon,
Neil Young,
Terry Callier,
The Misunderstood,
Toni Rubio,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
China Crisis,
L. Decosne,
Liliput,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Slits,
Eric Copeland,
Loose Ends,
Aswad,
the Human League,
Average White Band,
Marmalade,
Gang Starr,
Blancmange,
Traffic Nightmare,
Josef K,
Supertramp,
Sister Nancy,
Brick,
Jimmy McGriff,
Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron, Gil Scott Heron.
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.