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 Belgium and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Parry Music to the funk 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 Kaleidoscope. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
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,
Faust,
Tropical Tobacco,
Magazine,
Ultravox,
Electric Prunes,
The Standells,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
AZ,
48th St. Collective,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Neil Young,
Mary Jane Girls,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Angry Samoans,
Easy Going,
Marmalade,
Gichy Dan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Arthur Verocai,
The Cowsills,
Donald Byrd,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bizarre Inc.,
X-102,
Infiniti,
The Human League,
Chris & Cosey,
Sound Behaviour,
Guru Guru,
The Monks,
Flash Fearless,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Hood,
Marc Almond,
Nico,
Mission of Burma,
Mad Mike,
The Leaves,
Sun Ra,
Thompson Twins,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
R.M.O.,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Dirtbombs,
Yellowson,
Soulsonic Force,
Cheater Slicks,
Kayak,
X-101,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Boz Scaggs,
In Retrospect,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Crooked Eye,
Faraquet,
Simply Red,
Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio, Gian Franco Pienzio.
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.