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 Lesotho and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Tres Demented to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Zero Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Birthday Party record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb 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 linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Scion,
Icehouse,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Fall,
Man Parrish,
Organ,
Y Pants,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scientists,
Sandy B,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gang Starr,
Fad Gadget,
Subhumans,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Siglo XX,
The Detroit Cobras,
Bobby Byrd,
Nas,
Sällskapet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
PIL,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Christie,
Barclay James Harvest,
Derrick Morgan,
Sex Pistols,
Byron Stingily,
Glenn Branca,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Morten Harket,
The Last Poets,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare,
Letta Mbulu,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Cheater Slicks,
The Blues Magoos,
MDC,
Stockholm Monsters,
Au Pairs,
Brand Nubian,
The Doobie Brothers,
Patti Smith,
Josef K,
Unrelated Segments,
Ultra Naté,
The Happenings,
Reagan Youth,
Lakeside,
Skaos,
Groovy Waters,
The Monochrome Set,
Lindisfarne,
Los Fastidios,
Dave Gahan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Tubeway Army,
Silicon Teens,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass, K-Klass.
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.