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 Romania and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the sitar 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 Bad Manners to the crunk 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Donny Hathaway,
Pulsallama,
Severed Heads,
Inner City,
Fela Kuti,
Glambeats Corp.,
Intrusion,
The Barracudas,
The Modern Lovers,
The Skatalites,
The Toasters,
Blossom Toes,
Hoover,
Icehouse,
The Cowsills,
The Fire Engines,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Idris Muhammad,
Nick Fraelich,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gabor Szabo,
Albert Ayler,
Bronski Beat,
The New Christs,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Angry Samoans,
Reuben Wilson,
Theoretical Girls,
Alice Coltrane,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Desert Stars,
Soulsonic Force,
The Fuzztones,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric Copeland,
Minutemen,
Steve Hackett,
Zero Boys,
Absolute Body Control,
Marine Girls,
Bobby Sherman,
Radiohead,
The Sound,
The Misunderstood,
The Gun Club,
kango's stein massive,
Von Mondo,
The Monks,
T.S.O.L.,
David Axelrod,
the Swans,
Freddie Wadling,
Roxy Music,
The Count Five,
Zapp,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Music Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bootsy Collins,
Yellowson,
Ten City,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
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.