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 Uzbekistan and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 theremin 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 China Crisis to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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,
The Techniques,
The United States of America,
CMW,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Skatalites,
Marmalade,
Livin' Joy,
Mars,
the Germs,
Wally Richardson,
The Count Five,
David McCallum,
Slick Rick,
Joyce Sims,
U.S. Maple,
John Coltrane,
Hardrive,
Susan Cadogan,
Aswad,
Lebanon Hanover,
JFA,
Icehouse,
Mandrill,
Absolute Body Control,
Lungfish,
Deakin,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Agitation Free,
Radio Birdman,
Mary Jane Girls,
Television,
Hasil Adkins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bob Dylan,
Anakelly,
the Soft Cell,
Black Flag,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Pet Shop Boys,
Kevin Saunderson,
Outsiders,
Faust,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Monolake,
Can,
Aural Exciters,
Los Fastidios,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lindisfarne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Gerry Rafferty,
Jacques Brel,
Lucky Dragons,
Cal Tjader,
Cluster,
Eurythmics,
Maurizio,
the Bar-Kays,
Zapp,
Letta Mbulu,
The J.B.'s,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.