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 Netherlands and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 Juan Atkins 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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All The Mojo Men tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Todd Rundgren record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
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,
Newcleus,
Junior Murvin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kevin Saunderson,
Model 500,
Q and Not U,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Invisible,
The Real Kids,
Adolescents,
Susan Cadogan,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jacob Miller,
This Heat,
Qualms,
Hoover,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Human League,
Warren Ellis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sandy B,
Jeru the Damaja,
Dark Day,
Robert Görl,
Half Japanese,
Mission of Burma,
Reuben Wilson,
Fluxion,
Ituana,
Kerri Chandler,
Juan Atkins,
Camberwell Now,
Peter and Kerry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Electric Prunes,
Big Daddy Kane,
Radiohead,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Cymande,
The Divine Comedy,
Crash Course in Science,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Clear Light,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Arab on Radar,
Radio Birdman,
The Fortunes,
Shuggie Otis,
Ornette Coleman,
Sparks,
In Retrospect,
Kurtis Blow,
the Slits,
Mad Mike,
Maurizio,
The Buckinghams,
Dual Sessions,
Deepchord,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.