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 San Marino and from Halifax.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Cecil Taylor to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
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,
Audionom,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deadbeat,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Alphaville,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Circle Jerks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Flesh Eaters,
Inner City,
Kenny Larkin,
The Pretty Things,
John Lydon,
Scrapy,
Marc Almond,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
China Crisis,
Rekid,
Bluetip,
Groovy Waters,
Anakelly,
Don Cherry,
a-ha,
Pole,
EPMD,
Warren Ellis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Liliput,
Juan Atkins,
Josef K,
Bill Wells,
FM Einheit,
DNA,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terry Callier,
Spoonie Gee,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
R.M.O.,
Brand Nubian,
Buzzcocks,
ABC,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Eurythmics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Curtis Mayfield,
Joe Finger,
Negative Approach,
Dorothy Ashby,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The American Breed,
Con Funk Shun,
Warsaw,
Sonic Youth,
The Residents,
Guru Guru,
Intrusion,
Slick Rick,
Gabor Szabo,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.