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 Tajikistan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Madrid.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Girls At Our Best! to the grunge 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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sex Pistols record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a harpsichord 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 rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rufus Thomas,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wire,
Chrome,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Quando Quango,
8 Eyed Spy,
Moby Grape,
The Electric Prunes,
Bobby Byrd,
The Gap Band,
The Techniques,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rhythm & Sound,
Derrick May,
The Cramps,
Harpers Bizarre,
Quantec,
Hasil Adkins,
The Vogues,
Scion,
Johnny Osbourne,
DJ Sneak,
Barry Ungar,
Jesper Dahlback,
Trumans Water,
The Raincoats,
Joensuu 1685,
Kenny Larkin,
Rosa Yemen,
Jeff Mills,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cheater Slicks,
Nico,
Ludus,
R.M.O.,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Oneida,
B.T. Express,
The New Christs,
The Birthday Party,
Los Fastidios,
The Martian,
Newcleus,
Marvin Gaye,
Gong,
Roxette,
The Knickerbockers,
Banda Bassotti,
Drexciya,
Zero Boys,
The American Breed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
World's Most,
Kevin Saunderson,
ABBA,
Wally Richardson,
Minutemen,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.