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 Egypt and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the theremin 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 Ludus to the jazz 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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
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,
The Happenings,
Yusef Lateef,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris Corsano,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Livin' Joy,
Soulsonic Force,
Deakin,
The Monochrome Set,
Aural Exciters,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Roy Ayers,
World's Most,
Michelle Simonal,
ABBA,
Depeche Mode,
The Velvet Underground,
Qualms,
Grauzone,
Ultra Naté,
Motorama,
Ludus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Cramps,
Tres Demented,
Smog,
Barbara Tucker,
Maurizio,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Zeros,
Cheater Slicks,
Aloha Tigers,
Sandy B,
Roger Hodgson,
Clear Light,
Inner City,
Silicon Teens,
Severed Heads,
Ituana,
Joensuu 1685,
F. McDonald,
Todd Terry,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Martian,
Rhythm & Sound,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
FM Einheit,
Boredoms,
Soft Cell,
The Gladiators,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Fania All-Stars,
Tomorrow,
Alphaville,
The Offenders,
LL Cool J,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Trumans Water,
The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies, The Mummies.
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.