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 Macedonia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 UT to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
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,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Thompson Twins,
The Remains,
World's Most,
Model 500,
Easy Going,
Rapeman,
Joy Division,
Desert Stars,
Mission of Burma,
Ornette Coleman,
New Age Steppers,
Minor Threat,
Brothers Johnson,
Oneida,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
June of 44,
Yellowson,
The Grass Roots,
Excepter,
Make Up,
AZ,
The Martian,
The Beau Brummels,
Simply Red,
New York Dolls,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Searchers,
Sun Ra,
Television Personalities,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lucky Dragons,
Juan Atkins,
Guru Guru,
Rod Modell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Von Mondo,
Boredoms,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Erasure,
The Star Department,
Laurel Aitken,
Eurythmics,
Fear,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pulsallama,
Au Pairs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rakim,
Saccharine Trust,
Tim Buckley,
Tomorrow,
The Raincoats,
Steve Hackett,
Dark Day,
Dave Gahan,
Roxy Music,
Marc Almond,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.