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 Zimbabwe and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Smog. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra Arkestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Five Americans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry's Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a mellotron.
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,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Freddie Wadling,
Eli Mardock,
The Moleskins,
Livin' Joy,
Patti Smith,
Visage,
The Real Kids,
Black Sheep,
Skaos,
Sun City Girls,
Amazonics,
Bill Wells,
Fad Gadget,
Crispian St. Peters,
Royal Trux,
Gong,
Neu!,
the Bar-Kays,
AZ,
Oneida,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
the Swans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
cv313,
Panda Bear,
Echospace,
Public Enemy,
Blossom Toes,
Rites of Spring,
Surgeon,
The Durutti Column,
Morten Harket,
Banda Bassotti,
Maurizio,
The Blues Magoos,
John Cale,
Desert Stars,
Pagans,
Mission of Burma,
The Techniques,
The Sound,
Cymande,
Malaria!,
Mark Hollis,
Smog,
Guru Guru,
Alison Limerick,
Funkadelic,
Glambeats Corp.,
The United States of America,
The Raincoats,
Yazoo,
Franke,
Gregory Isaacs,
kango's stein massive,
Make Up,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Roy Ayers Ubiquity.
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.