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 Madagascar and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 The Buckinghams to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
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,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
New Age Steppers,
Chris Corsano,
Nas,
The Selecter,
Kaleidoscope,
The Sonics,
Peter and Kerry,
John Coltrane,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gabor Szabo,
Cybotron,
Kenny Larkin,
The Walker Brothers,
Half Japanese,
The Slits,
X-Ray Spex,
The United States of America,
Iggy Pop,
Wolf Eyes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Dual Sessions,
DJ Style,
The Knickerbockers,
Radio Birdman,
The Leaves,
Soft Machine,
Juan Atkins,
Supertramp,
Quadrant,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Scientists,
Crooked Eye,
Bad Manners,
James White and The Blacks,
T.S.O.L.,
DNA,
The Human League,
Lebanon Hanover,
Thee Headcoats,
This Heat,
The Victims,
The Fuzztones,
One Last Wish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Moby Grape,
Parry Music,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fatback Band,
Rites of Spring,
Severed Heads,
Bill Near,
Todd Rundgren,
Patti Smith,
Harpers Bizarre,
Young Marble Giants,
Tres Demented,
The Angels of Light,
June of 44,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.