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 Laos and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lille.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Fire Engines to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gary Puckett & The Union Gap. All the underground hits.
All Lightning Bolt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erasure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sly & The Family Stone record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
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,
Blake Baxter,
Grauzone,
the Association,
The Techniques,
Ornette Coleman,
World's Most,
Roxy Music,
The Walker Brothers,
China Crisis,
Iggy Pop,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Warren Ellis,
Sam Rivers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Public Enemy,
Yaz,
X-102,
Fear,
the Fania All-Stars,
Minny Pops,
kango's stein massive,
Wolf Eyes,
Connie Case,
L. Decosne,
The Toasters,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Chris & Cosey,
Albert Ayler,
Pere Ubu,
The Cramps,
Bauhaus,
Mission of Burma,
Susan Cadogan,
Franke,
Animal Collective,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pole,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
48th St. Collective,
Terrestrial Tones,
Robert Görl,
Crooked Eye,
The Monochrome Set,
Alton Ellis,
Unrelated Segments,
The Black Dice,
MC5,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Vogues,
Monks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Donny Hathaway,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Germs,
Hashim,
The Martian,
The Cowsills,
John Cale,
Dennis Brown,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.