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 Ukraine and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the güiro 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 Frankie Knuckles to the techno 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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 chamberlin 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Jacob Miller,
Inner City,
Scrapy,
The Associates,
Schoolly D,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Fugs,
Nirvana,
Fatback Band,
Neil Young,
Gregory Isaacs,
Duran Duran,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alphaville,
The Gap Band,
Don Cherry,
Reuben Wilson,
X-Ray Spex,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Minny Pops,
Lakeside,
Rosa Yemen,
David McCallum,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Sisters of Mercy,
John Coltrane,
June Days,
U.S. Maple,
Dennis Brown,
Nick Fraelich,
New York Dolls,
Tears for Fears,
The Fall,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Surgeon,
Swans,
Television Personalities,
Joensuu 1685,
Dave Gahan,
Nils Olav,
Matthew Bourne,
The New Christs,
Babytalk,
Sun City Girls,
X-102,
Steve Hackett,
Drexciya,
Q and Not U,
Massinfluence,
Section 25,
Q65,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
A Certain Ratio,
Mission of Burma,
World's Most,
Sixth Finger,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cybotron,
The Fortunes,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Moebius, Moebius, Moebius, Moebius.
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.