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 Burundi and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the oboe 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 Derrick May to the techno 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alice Coltrane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
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,
Qualms,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ash Ra Tempel,
8 Eyed Spy,
Electric Light Orchestra,
kango's stein massive,
Dave Gahan,
Newcleus,
Sight & Sound,
Animal Collective,
The Grass Roots,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Popol Vuh,
Intrusion,
Ponytail,
Liliput,
Blossom Toes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roger Hodgson,
Scientists,
Tropical Tobacco,
Pagans,
The Shadows of Knight,
Iggy Pop,
Neil Young,
Jerry's Kids,
Ronnie Foster,
Massinfluence,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Boredoms,
Wings,
Harry Pussy,
Vainqueur,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lucky Dragons,
The Invisible,
Skarface,
Yazoo,
The Associates,
The Divine Comedy,
Talk Talk,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Blues Magoos,
48th St. Collective,
Gichy Dan,
The Dave Clark Five,
Country Teasers,
Infiniti,
Flamin' Groovies,
Kool Moe Dee,
Alice Coltrane,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Boz Scaggs,
Young Marble Giants,
Scott Walker,
Surgeon,
Schoolly D,
CMW,
Franke,
Sam Rivers,
Todd Terry,
Gregory Isaacs,
June Days, June Days, June Days, June Days.
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.