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 Palau and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the disco 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Fifty Foot Hose record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
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,
Schoolly D,
The Human League,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Sister Nancy,
Electric Prunes,
Bauhaus,
X-101,
The Red Krayola,
Howard Jones,
Matthew Bourne,
Whodini,
Radiohead,
The Fortunes,
Brothers Johnson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tim Buckley,
Technova,
Joe Smooth,
Nico,
Derrick May,
The United States of America,
The Techniques,
Make Up,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
KRS-One,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Association,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Dual Sessions,
Audionom,
Vainqueur,
Sight & Sound,
The Moody Blues,
Rotary Connection,
Hoover,
Clear Light,
Lebanon Hanover,
Johnny Clarke,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Zero Boys,
Trumans Water,
Crime,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Slick Rick,
Peter & Gordon,
The Smoke,
The Associates,
Marine Girls,
Tubeway Army,
Crash Course in Science,
Erykah Badu,
Toni Rubio,
U.S. Maple,
Fatback Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Panda Bear,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.