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 Georgia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tommy Roe to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lalo Schifrin. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ken Boothe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Livin' Joy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
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,
Wire,
L. Decosne,
Flash Fearless,
Blancmange,
the Normal,
FM Einheit,
Roxette,
Organ,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Tremeloes,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Judy Mowatt,
Sound Behaviour,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jacques Brel,
Johnny Clarke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Supertramp,
Q65,
Essential Logic,
Freddie Wadling,
June of 44,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Althea and Donna,
Iggy Pop,
Pere Ubu,
Stockholm Monsters,
Todd Rundgren,
The Techniques,
Lou Christie,
Tomorrow,
Colin Newman,
The Monochrome Set,
Y Pants,
Ice-T,
Flipper,
The Evens,
Warren Ellis,
Youth Brigade,
Cal Tjader,
Tres Demented,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grauzone,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Names,
Jacob Miller,
The Offenders,
8 Eyed Spy,
Minny Pops,
Fluxion,
Warsaw,
Joy Division,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sparks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cowsills,
Robert Wyatt,
Gang Starr,
The Litter,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.