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 Latvia and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Mantronix to the rock 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Jimmy McGriff,
Talk Talk,
Chrome,
Arthur Verocai,
The Walker Brothers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rotary Connection,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Holt,
Radio Birdman,
Cecil Taylor,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ice-T,
Jeru the Damaja,
T. Rex,
Robert Görl,
Byron Stingily,
Jeff Lynne,
Henry Cow,
Stereo Dub,
Spoonie Gee,
the Germs,
Television,
Aswad,
K-Klass,
Loose Ends,
The Misunderstood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Pulsallama,
Sarah Menescal,
Japan,
Saccharine Trust,
Kerrie Biddell,
The J.B.'s,
Hoover,
Babytalk,
Masters at Work,
Freddie Wadling,
In Retrospect,
Ken Boothe,
Stetsasonic,
Procol Harum,
The Gories,
The Five Americans,
Ralphi Rosario,
Minutemen,
Minny Pops,
Darondo,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Vainqueur,
Archie Shepp,
Graham Central Station,
The Blues Magoos,
Jandek,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Livin' Joy,
FM Einheit,
Peter and Kerry,
Pantytec,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.