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 Slovakia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Leonard Cohen to the disco 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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy's Rubber Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sister Nancy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
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,
The Move,
Angry Samoans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lalo Schifrin,
Man Parrish,
Essential Logic,
a-ha,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Ronnie Foster,
The Cure,
Section 25,
CMW,
Brand Nubian,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Country Teasers,
Flash Fearless,
Pharoah Sanders,
Negative Approach,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Nirvana,
Loose Ends,
Make Up,
Johnny Clarke,
Unwound,
Severed Heads,
Thompson Twins,
kango's stein massive,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wings,
Eden Ahbez,
Agent Orange,
Youth Brigade,
The Fuzztones,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Andrew Hill,
Oblivians,
Neu!,
Deakin,
Lyres,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kayak,
The Sonics,
The Associates,
Oneida,
The Saints,
The Dead C,
Pagans,
Quantec,
Theoretical Girls,
Rapeman,
Joyce Sims,
FM Einheit,
T.S.O.L.,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Leonard Cohen,
cv313,
A Certain Ratio,
Pantaleimon,
The Martian,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.