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 Somalia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar 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 Index to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum 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 oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deakin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Dolphy,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cowsills,
the Sonics,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
cv313,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
LL Cool J,
Reuben Wilson,
Man Parrish,
Piero Umiliani,
Loose Ends,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Drexciya,
Eric Copeland,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Technova,
The Velvet Underground,
The Busters,
Rosa Yemen,
Ponytail,
Anthony Braxton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Crash Course in Science,
Smog,
The Fuzztones,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Kinks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Mojo Men,
John Cale,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
X-Ray Spex,
Rhythm & Sound,
Terry Callier,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eli Mardock,
Hoover,
The Sonics,
The Blackbyrds,
Moebius,
Davy DMX,
Bill Near,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Prince Buster,
Alton Ellis,
The Raincoats,
Albert Ayler,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang Gang Dance,
PIL,
ABC,
Nico,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Misunderstood,
The Buckinghams,
Sugar Minott,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.