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 Taiwan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Barbara Tucker to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 the Human League. All the underground hits.
All ABC 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 grime 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 a guitar and a rhodes 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?
Black Moon,
The Standells,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gang of Four,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Icehouse,
Mark Hollis,
U.S. Maple,
The Five Americans,
MDC,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Scan 7,
Robert Wyatt,
The Barracudas,
Groovy Waters,
The Music Machine,
Brand Nubian,
The United States of America,
PIL,
The Monochrome Set,
The Cramps,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pole,
Organ,
Ossler,
Alphaville,
Rites of Spring,
Deepchord,
The Gladiators,
Yusef Lateef,
Quando Quango,
The Young Rascals,
Anthony Braxton,
Glenn Branca,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Symarip,
The Smoke,
the Human League,
Darondo,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blackbyrds,
Faraquet,
Fluxion,
Peter & Gordon,
Visage,
Section 25,
Skarface,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Panda Bear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James White and The Blacks,
Arab on Radar,
Swans,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.