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 Argentina and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the sitar 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 Shoche to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
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,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
PIL,
The Move,
Fela Kuti,
Sarah Menescal,
Crime,
AZ,
Ken Boothe,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Parry Music,
John Foxx,
Lalo Schifrin,
Robert Hood,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Index,
Faraquet,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Supertramp,
Vainqueur,
Roxette,
Bang On A Can,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Ice-T,
Jeff Lynne,
Stiv Bators,
Dual Sessions,
Cluster,
Robert Wyatt,
The Martian,
Crispy Ambulance,
The American Breed,
Grey Daturas,
Godley & Creme,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Von Mondo,
Tears for Fears,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
John Lydon,
Brick,
Newcleus,
Desert Stars,
Sällskapet,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Marvin Gaye,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Jerry's Kids,
Johnny Osbourne,
One Last Wish,
DNA,
The Gladiators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Janne Schatter,
Morten Harket,
Funkadelic,
Bad Manners,
The Selecter,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bob Dylan,
Icehouse,
Lee Hazlewood,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.