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 United Kingdom and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jerry's Kids to the grime 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Monochrome Set 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Red Lorry Yellow Lorry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
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,
Technova,
In Retrospect,
Negative Approach,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Dead Boys,
The Walker Brothers,
The Velvet Underground,
The Stooges,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Mummies,
Sight & Sound,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marine Girls,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Ohio Players,
Dave Gahan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Black Sheep,
Saccharine Trust,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Darondo,
Swans,
Delta 5,
The Evens,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minor Threat,
The Vogues,
A Certain Ratio,
Public Enemy,
Khruangbin,
Can,
Monks,
Freddie Wadling,
The Selecter,
Tropical Tobacco,
Aaron Thompson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Pierre Henry,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Eli Mardock,
Mo-Dettes,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rosa Yemen,
Bootsy Collins,
Popol Vuh,
Jawbox,
Schoolly D,
Smog,
Erasure,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Erykah Badu,
Reagan Youth,
Todd Terry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cybotron,
Moss Icon,
Visage,
Little Man,
Ludus,
Lyres,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Grandmaster Flash,
Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army, Tubeway Army.
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.