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 Jordan and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Japan to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Icehouse. All the underground hits.
All The Moody Blues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Organ record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare 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 chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Warsaw,
the Bar-Kays,
Pharoah Sanders,
Soulsonic Force,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
New Order,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jandek,
John Lydon,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Amazonics,
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Neon Judgement,
Johnny Osbourne,
Roxy Music,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Davy DMX,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gil Scott Heron,
Panda Bear,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stiv Bators,
Lebanon Hanover,
Dave Gahan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Nico,
Terry Callier,
Moby Grape,
The Victims,
Jacob Miller,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lalann,
Subhumans,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nas,
Tommy Roe,
Underground Resistance,
the Fania All-Stars,
Kenny Larkin,
Scientists,
Laurel Aitken,
Janne Schatter,
Model 500,
the Association,
John Coltrane,
The Litter,
Fatback Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Dark Day,
Swell Maps,
Marc Almond,
Max Romeo,
The Slits,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.