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 India and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Surgeon to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Hashim. All the underground hits.
All Bluetip tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
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,
Warren Ellis,
Sexual Harrassment,
LL Cool J,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Smoke,
Banda Bassotti,
The United States of America,
Fad Gadget,
Khruangbin,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Bananas,
Babytalk,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Faust,
K-Klass,
Drexciya,
Q and Not U,
The Skatalites,
The Knickerbockers,
The Index,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Newcleus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marmalade,
The Moleskins,
The J.B.'s,
Darondo,
X-Ray Spex,
Marc Almond,
The Alarm Clocks,
Yazoo,
Surgeon,
Von Mondo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Alice Coltrane,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Reagan Youth,
Oblivians,
Boogie Down Productions,
Harpers Bizarre,
Nico,
R.M.O.,
David Axelrod,
Smog,
The Standells,
The Dead C,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Matthew Halsall,
Archie Shepp,
The Kinks,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Selecter,
The New Christs,
The Smiths,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Mantronix,
Patti Smith,
Scientists, Scientists, Scientists, Scientists.
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.