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 El Salvador and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lalo Schifrin to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill 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 güiro and a sitar 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 snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Foxx,
Fluxion,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Outsiders,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The United States of America,
Monolake,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Soft Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
ABC,
Kenny Larkin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Funky Four + One,
Pole,
Piero Umiliani,
The Smiths,
Gang of Four,
The Gap Band,
The Electric Prunes,
Deepchord,
Angry Samoans,
Absolute Body Control,
Ralphi Rosario,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joyce Sims,
Black Sheep,
Moebius,
Bill Wells,
Hashim,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Warren Ellis,
Mars,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lou Reed,
a-ha,
K-Klass,
Guru Guru,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
R.M.O.,
Soft Cell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Essential Logic,
Agitation Free,
Bob Dylan,
Crash Course in Science,
The Index,
Andrew Hill,
The Toasters,
Neu!,
The Dead C,
Flipper,
Peter & Gordon,
Pet Shop Boys,
Aural Exciters,
Ossler,
Crime,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.