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 Saudi Arabia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sällskapet to the funk 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 Procol Harum. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar 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 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Infiniti,
The Barracudas,
The Real Kids,
The Happenings,
The Searchers,
The Saints,
Lou Reed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Simply Red,
Kaleidoscope,
Dennis Brown,
The Knickerbockers,
The Fall,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Misunderstood,
Lakeside,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Index,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Avey Tare,
Gang Green,
Wire,
Gastr Del Sol,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Human League,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Smog,
Newcleus,
The Angels of Light,
Parry Music,
Sugar Minott,
Adolescents,
Gang Starr,
Minnie Riperton,
Symarip,
Kenny Larkin,
Echospace,
John Holt,
Camberwell Now,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Schoolly D,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Nirvana,
The Litter,
Tom Boy,
Henry Cow,
Delta 5,
Yusef Lateef,
The Fugs,
Ten City,
The Smiths,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Lalo Schifrin,
Maurizio,
Visage,
Slave,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.