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 United Kingdom and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 marimba 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 Curtis Mayfield to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Vogues. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantaleimon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin 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 mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Misunderstood,
Organ,
the Sonics,
Yaz,
Lalann,
Rotary Connection,
Cabaret Voltaire,
D'Angelo,
Jacques Brel,
Jerry's Kids,
Albert Ayler,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skriet,
Pierre Henry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bad Manners,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Gladiators,
Slave,
Swell Maps,
Ludus,
Slick Rick,
Amazonics,
The Moody Blues,
Vainqueur,
The American Breed,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Robert Wyatt,
The Sound,
Lou Reed,
Ohio Players,
The Knickerbockers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Coltrane,
Erasure,
Zero Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Saccharine Trust,
Sixth Finger,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Dave Clark Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bluetip,
Quadrant,
Byron Stingily,
Fela Kuti,
The Golliwogs,
The Star Department,
Alice Coltrane,
Johnny Clarke,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Yusef Lateef,
Q and Not U,
Section 25,
Warsaw,
Public Enemy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rod Modell,
Newcleus,
Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux, Royal Trux.
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.