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 Rwanda and from Woodstock.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sight & Sound to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All Danielle Patucci tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cymande record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Susan Cadogan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
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,
Alphaville,
Danielle Patucci,
Soft Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lalann,
Urselle,
Barrington Levy,
Funkadelic,
Boz Scaggs,
Sister Nancy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Matthew Halsall,
Pagans,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bizarre Inc.,
Fugazi,
Mars,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
Cymande,
Harmonia,
Agent Orange,
T. Rex,
Swell Maps,
Von Mondo,
Nirvana,
The Young Rascals,
The Kinks,
The Velvet Underground,
The Cramps,
The Sound,
Bush Tetras,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Gang Dance,
Visage,
Robert Hood,
Scan 7,
Fatback Band,
Sun Ra,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Erasure,
Alison Limerick,
Guru Guru,
The Beau Brummels,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
the Slits,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Erykah Badu,
The Black Dice,
Ornette Coleman,
The Pretty Things,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ultravox,
Television Personalities,
Radio Birdman,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eric Copeland,
The Count Five,
Matthew Bourne,
Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken, Laurel Aitken.
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.