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 Cambodia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Albert Ayler to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Fuzztones. All the underground hits.
All Marmalade tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
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 Shadows of Knight,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Misunderstood,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Morten Harket,
Sun City Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Saints,
the Soft Cell,
Camouflage,
the Human League,
Buzzcocks,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gories,
Lalann,
Kaleidoscope,
Junior Murvin,
Bobby Sherman,
John Holt,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Radiohead,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Crash Course in Science,
Model 500,
The Grass Roots,
Bang On A Can,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Second Layer,
Skriet,
Accadde A,
Newcleus,
Hashim,
Lower 48,
Kayak,
Lee Hazlewood,
Harry Pussy,
CMW,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Average White Band,
Trumans Water,
Dennis Brown,
World's Most,
Livin' Joy,
MC5,
Matthew Halsall,
The Names,
X-102,
Don Cherry,
Royal Trux,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Count Five,
These Immortal Souls,
Soulsonic Force,
Suburban Knight,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Iggy Pop,
Youth Brigade,
X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex, X-Ray Spex.
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.