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 Grenada and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
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 The Men They Couldn't Hang to the techno 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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an oboe and a harpsichord 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 clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
Bad Manners,
The Neon Judgement,
Babytalk,
Davy DMX,
Monks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rod Modell,
the Association,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Desert Stars,
Josef K,
Brand Nubian,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Andrew Hill,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dorothy Ashby,
Q65,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Residents,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Circle Jerks,
Faraquet,
The Barracudas,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bobby Sherman,
The Searchers,
Eden Ahbez,
Fad Gadget,
Soul II Soul,
R.M.O.,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
KRS-One,
Tears for Fears,
Surgeon,
Bootsy Collins,
Scott Walker,
Matthew Halsall,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fatback Band,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Spoonie Gee,
cv313,
Little Man,
Tres Demented,
Amon Düül,
Trumans Water,
Delta 5,
Wings,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ponytail,
the Sonics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Oblivians,
The Martian,
Hasil Adkins,
Lou Christie,
Soft Cell,
Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman.
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.