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 Cambodia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 a-ha to the electroclash 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
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,
Avey Tare,
Sparks,
Big Daddy Kane,
Chrome,
A Certain Ratio,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lakeside,
Hoover,
Siglo XX,
The Flesh Eaters,
Half Japanese,
Radiohead,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Motions,
The Red Krayola,
the Human League,
Prince Buster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Jacob Miller,
Lalann,
Sonic Youth,
Gang of Four,
The Monks,
Pulsallama,
Blancmange,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Pretty Things,
Joyce Sims,
Eric B and Rakim,
Y Pants,
Brass Construction,
Skriet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gang Green,
The Gun Club,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sällskapet,
Wire,
Bob Dylan,
The Human League,
Minny Pops,
Rites of Spring,
Kaleidoscope,
Maurizio,
Moss Icon,
Panda Bear,
X-102,
Ludus,
The Durutti Column,
D'Angelo,
Little Man,
Hot Snakes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultravox,
Laurel Aitken,
Aloha Tigers,
Juan Atkins,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.