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 Uruguay and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes 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 UT to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 mellotron 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 spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Detroit Cobras,
The United States of America,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sonic Youth,
Unwound,
Bobby Womack,
Dorothy Ashby,
Junior Murvin,
the Association,
Donald Byrd,
Kevin Saunderson,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Byrd,
Neil Young,
Arthur Verocai,
Pole,
Niagra,
Amon Düül II,
Kurtis Blow,
Crispy Ambulance,
Faraquet,
Archie Shepp,
New Order,
Michelle Simonal,
Darondo,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cramps,
Moby Grape,
Harry Pussy,
Das Ding,
Yellowson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rakim,
The Wake,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Barclay James Harvest,
Qualms,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
David McCallum,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Japan,
Warren Ellis,
Public Enemy,
The Techniques,
The Move,
Livin' Joy,
The Toasters,
Funkadelic,
In Retrospect,
Lou Reed,
Faust,
La Düsseldorf,
Silicon Teens,
The Monks,
Toni Rubio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Chocolate Watch Band.
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.