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 Germany and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Buzzcocks to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer 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 rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bad Manners,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Brothers Johnson,
Camouflage,
Lungfish,
Surgeon,
Tim Buckley,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dennis Brown,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fugs,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bill Wells,
Don Cherry,
Scion,
Avey Tare,
The Human League,
Hardrive,
Dawn Penn,
Camberwell Now,
The Invisible,
Stiv Bators,
The Fortunes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sarah Menescal,
the Bar-Kays,
Grauzone,
Niagra,
Lightning Bolt,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Scrapy,
Shuggie Otis,
Skaos,
Bluetip,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ornette Coleman,
U.S. Maple,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Doors,
Ronnie Foster,
The Moleskins,
The Index,
The Buckinghams,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Seeds,
Jeff Lynne,
Swans,
Barrington Levy,
Warren Ellis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Schoolly D,
Zapp,
CMW,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Supertramp,
Donny Hathaway,
Morten Harket,
Archie Shepp,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.