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 Morocco and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 organ 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 The Blues Magoos to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All John Holt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb 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 chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eurythmics,
Sonic Youth,
The Blackbyrds,
Lakeside,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Schoolly D,
Funkadelic,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scientists,
ABBA,
Barbara Tucker,
Procol Harum,
the Germs,
Howard Jones,
The Raincoats,
Soul Sonic Force,
Chrome,
Lalo Schifrin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Rundgren,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Archie Shepp,
Gabor Szabo,
Con Funk Shun,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Sarah Menescal,
Radiohead,
Harry Pussy,
Crispian St. Peters,
KRS-One,
Rod Modell,
Anakelly,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Hardrive,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bootsy Collins,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gong,
The Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
Spandau Ballet,
PIL,
Public Enemy,
Television Personalities,
The Offenders,
EPMD,
Fugazi,
Roxy Music,
Gang of Four,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rhythm & Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Seeds,
Soul II Soul,
Loose Ends,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Cramps,
Pantytec,
Quando Quango,
Soft Cell,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.