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 Mauritania and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 snare 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 Minnie Riperton to the grime 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an arpeggiator 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 marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Standells,
Mo-Dettes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Isaac Hayes,
The Golliwogs,
Flipper,
The Dead C,
The Offenders,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Absolute Body Control,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Marmalade,
The Fall,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hasil Adkins,
Popol Vuh,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Smoke,
Charles Mingus,
Alphaville,
Outsiders,
Aloha Tigers,
Mad Mike,
Tears for Fears,
Brick,
Rufus Thomas,
Joensuu 1685,
Nico,
The Fortunes,
Black Pus,
Animal Collective,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hardrive,
Simply Red,
Country Teasers,
The Zeros,
David Bowie,
Japan,
Althea and Donna,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Warren Ellis,
Dead Boys,
Todd Rundgren,
Ten City,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vladislav Delay,
Graham Central Station,
Gastr Del Sol,
Section 25,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Adolescents,
X-102,
Eurythmics,
Aaron Thompson,
The United States of America,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.