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 Spokane.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
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 Lou Reed to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Durutti Column record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marine Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer 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,
Sarah Menescal,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Infiniti,
Tubeway Army,
The Monochrome Set,
MC5,
Deakin,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Moody Blues,
Traffic Nightmare,
Morten Harket,
the Soft Cell,
Depeche Mode,
Fat Boys,
EPMD,
Black Moon,
Amazonics,
Drexciya,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Tremeloes,
The Star Department,
Todd Rundgren,
Eli Mardock,
Boz Scaggs,
Brass Construction,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Five Americans,
The Barracudas,
Zapp,
Graham Central Station,
Soul II Soul,
Cal Tjader,
Monks,
Alton Ellis,
Suburban Knight,
The Selecter,
Blossom Toes,
Lucky Dragons,
Newcleus,
Sister Nancy,
Tomorrow,
ABBA,
Gang of Four,
Archie Shepp,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joyce Sims,
Spoonie Gee,
Q and Not U,
The Gap Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Excepter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Rotary Connection,
Clear Light,
Quadrant,
Bill Wells,
Gerry Rafferty,
Cymande,
Kenny Larkin,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Black Bananas,
The Slits,
Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins, Bootsy Collins.
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.