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 Lebanon and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lille.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Nick Fraelich to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Excepter 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
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,
Agent Orange,
Eddi Front,
Bobby Sherman,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
New Order,
Byron Stingily,
T.S.O.L.,
Scientists,
Lindisfarne,
Harpers Bizarre,
Leonard Cohen,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bill Near,
Kerrie Biddell,
World's Most,
The Saints,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Yusef Lateef,
The American Breed,
Minutemen,
Aaron Thompson,
Letta Mbulu,
The Doors,
Clear Light,
LL Cool J,
Crispy Ambulance,
David McCallum,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Trumans Water,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mantronix,
The Evens,
Kevin Saunderson,
Liliput,
Blossom Toes,
The Buckinghams,
Tubeway Army,
Susan Cadogan,
The Real Kids,
Alice Coltrane,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
ABC,
The Gories,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MC5,
Sixth Finger,
Outsiders,
Essential Logic,
Cluster,
Glenn Branca,
June Days,
The Slackers,
Tim Buckley,
Roxy Music,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Unwound,
Mr. Review,
Echospace,
The Walker Brothers,
Zero Boys,
The Skatalites,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.