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 Australia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Winnipeg.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the sitar 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 Little Man to the techno 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse. All the underground hits.
All The Velvet Underground tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
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,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Man Eating Sloth,
Eli Mardock,
Blancmange,
Alison Limerick,
Model 500,
Scion,
Dead Boys,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Au Pairs,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Nas,
Gichy Dan,
The Fugs,
Deepchord,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Masters at Work,
Gong,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Pretty Things,
the Swans,
Joyce Sims,
The Remains,
The Gun Club,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Dual Sessions,
Cybotron,
Sister Nancy,
Mad Mike,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Intrusion,
The Dead C,
The Count Five,
Lebanon Hanover,
Saccharine Trust,
Soft Cell,
Anakelly,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fugazi,
Albert Ayler,
Dark Day,
Kas Product,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Associates,
Index,
The Detroit Cobras,
Danielle Patucci,
Roger Hodgson,
The Evens,
Suicide,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Theoretical Girls,
X-101,
The Kinks,
Pulsallama,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Connie Case,
Mantronix,
MC5,
This Heat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.