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 Japan and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 & John Cale to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlback tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Teenage Jesus and the Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 48th St. Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
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,
Silicon Teens,
Unwound,
OOIOO,
Peter & Gordon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Cramps,
kango's stein massive,
Steve Hackett,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Stetsasonic,
Basic Channel,
Yazoo,
Ronnie Foster,
Anakelly,
John Holt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sällskapet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scion,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Raincoats,
Thee Headcoats,
Gregory Isaacs,
Deakin,
Tom Boy,
Moebius,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Knickerbockers,
Hashim,
Ituana,
Sound Behaviour,
The New Christs,
Sun Ra,
Jawbox,
The Tremeloes,
Todd Rundgren,
Absolute Body Control,
Mantronix,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Eli Mardock,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Leaves,
Siglo XX,
Pharoah Sanders,
Yellowson,
Crooked Eye,
The Gladiators,
Rosa Yemen,
The Beau Brummels,
The Monochrome Set,
Motorama,
A Certain Ratio,
Tubeway Army,
Aloha Tigers,
Country Teasers,
Echospace,
Audionom,
Section 25,
Procol Harum,
Neu!, Neu!, Neu!, Neu!.
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.