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 Bahamas and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Delon & Dalcan to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Reagan Youth. All the underground hits.
All Sam Rivers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Age Steppers 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
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,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Isaac Hayes,
MC5,
Sugar Minott,
Charles Mingus,
Rakim,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Black Bananas,
Ice-T,
The Cosmic Jokers,
This Heat,
Amon Düül II,
Mark Hollis,
Max Romeo,
The Names,
The Monochrome Set,
Steve Hackett,
The Fuzztones,
Darondo,
Crooked Eye,
Lakeside,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Massinfluence,
Connie Case,
Bobby Womack,
Joe Finger,
Ultra Naté,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Flash Fearless,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
T.S.O.L.,
Con Funk Shun,
Bush Tetras,
R.M.O.,
ABC,
Chris Corsano,
Accadde A,
Nico,
Slick Rick,
Parry Music,
Theoretical Girls,
Boz Scaggs,
Faraquet,
The Fall,
EPMD,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Peter & Gordon,
Wally Richardson,
Adolescents,
The Gap Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vladislav Delay,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Blossom Toes,
The Tremeloes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Mandrill,
U.S. Maple,
Maleditus Sound,
Marshall Jefferson,
Black Sheep,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.