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 Uzbekistan and from Portland.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Cameo to the rock 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Black Sheep tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roger Hodgson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba 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 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
Swans,
Can,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Quantec,
Roxette,
Scratch Acid,
Echospace,
Idris Muhammad,
Crash Course in Science,
Robert Hood,
Ponytail,
Second Layer,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Flipper,
Kurtis Blow,
Archie Shepp,
Youth Brigade,
Wasted Youth,
Icehouse,
Brand Nubian,
Liliput,
Josef K,
Sugar Minott,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fear,
Con Funk Shun,
The Dead C,
Gang of Four,
Drexciya,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Crime,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Blake Baxter,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Deepchord,
The Seeds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Tom Boy,
Dawn Penn,
Pet Shop Boys,
Maleditus Sound,
Kayak,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Golliwogs,
Jerry's Kids,
Glenn Branca,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Gang Dance,
Alice Coltrane,
Jesper Dahlback,
Camouflage,
Man Parrish,
Harmonia,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pantytec,
Vladislav Delay,
Barbara Tucker,
X-101,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.