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 Cameroon and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Basic Channel to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Star Department. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ten City,
Eddi Front,
Trumans Water,
Ossler,
Max Romeo,
John Lydon,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Erykah Badu,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Gladiators,
Bang On A Can,
Ponytail,
Adolescents,
Roxy Music,
Cal Tjader,
Magma,
The United States of America,
Dawn Penn,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Freddie Wadling,
Model 500,
Pierre Henry,
The Dead C,
Lightning Bolt,
Unwound,
Peter and Kerry,
Wally Richardson,
The Martian,
Talk Talk,
Lakeside,
Qualms,
Soul Sonic Force,
Warren Ellis,
Toni Rubio,
Sonic Youth,
Alison Limerick,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Tremeloes,
The Beau Brummels,
Kerri Chandler,
Pagans,
The Golliwogs,
The J.B.'s,
Hot Snakes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Depeche Mode,
Idris Muhammad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Au Pairs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Absolute Body Control,
Matthew Bourne,
Bill Wells,
Loose Ends,
Index,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kool Moe Dee,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.