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 Zimbabwe and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lower 48 to the grunge 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quadrant record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes 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 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Finger,
Pantytec,
Blossom Toes,
Warsaw,
Jerry's Kids,
The New Christs,
The Electric Prunes,
The Trojans,
The Techniques,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Standells,
Talk Talk,
Lightning Bolt,
Slick Rick,
48th St. Collective,
Rotary Connection,
Todd Terry,
Soft Machine,
Zero Boys,
Brass Construction,
Animal Collective,
Dennis Brown,
Model 500,
Camberwell Now,
Guru Guru,
H. Thieme,
Drive Like Jehu,
Porter Ricks,
Bill Near,
Fat Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fort Wilson Riot,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ponytail,
Chris Corsano,
Slave,
Con Funk Shun,
Tim Buckley,
Metal Thangz,
Ultra Naté,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Jeff Mills,
Joe Smooth,
FM Einheit,
Severed Heads,
Tubeway Army,
Ornette Coleman,
Carl Craig,
Newcleus,
Fela Kuti,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Public Image Ltd.,
Swell Maps,
Deakin,
Dark Day,
Kaleidoscope,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.