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 Benin and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Yellowson to the techno 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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All Roxy Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Organ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
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,
June of 44,
Skriet,
Pantytec,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Beau Brummels,
Nas,
Derrick Morgan,
Albert Ayler,
Godley & Creme,
LL Cool J,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Yellowson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bizarre Inc.,
Jacob Miller,
Steve Hackett,
Jandek,
Electric Prunes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scan 7,
Basic Channel,
ABBA,
Roxette,
Royal Trux,
Groovy Waters,
The Gun Club,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Leaves,
The Smiths,
Slave,
The Invisible,
Pierre Henry,
The Sound,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Busters,
Matthew Bourne,
The Sonics,
Mars,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Don Cherry,
Minnie Riperton,
Grey Daturas,
Outsiders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ossler,
Rites of Spring,
Severed Heads,
Bluetip,
Matthew Halsall,
Stockholm Monsters,
Patti Smith,
Stetsasonic,
Scrapy,
Supertramp,
the Soft Cell,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gichy Dan,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.