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 Switzerland and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Robert Hood to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Monolake. All the underground hits.
All Dawn Penn tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a rhodes and a harpsichord 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 snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harmonia,
Television Personalities,
Minutemen,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sarah Menescal,
DJ Style,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deakin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Au Pairs,
Deadbeat,
Idris Muhammad,
Rapeman,
Sonny Sharrock,
Vladislav Delay,
Lou Reed,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ornette Coleman,
The Zeros,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Colin Newman,
The Doobie Brothers,
The New Christs,
The Smoke,
Bob Dylan,
Index,
Cheater Slicks,
Ken Boothe,
The Electric Prunes,
Siglo XX,
Gregory Isaacs,
a-ha,
Anthony Braxton,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Moody Blues,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Wolf Eyes,
Bauhaus,
Fad Gadget,
Minnie Riperton,
The Invisible,
The Martian,
Suburban Knight,
Ice-T,
The Blues Magoos,
The Seeds,
Yusef Lateef,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Television,
Jeff Mills,
The Fortunes,
the Human League,
Janne Schatter,
The Modern Lovers,
Bluetip,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.