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 Armenia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Kurtis Blow to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Wells record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
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,
Bill Near,
Danielle Patucci,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Rites of Spring,
The Wake,
The Red Krayola,
Groovy Waters,
Terry Callier,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tubeway Army,
Skarface,
The Vogues,
KRS-One,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sam Rivers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Boredoms,
Echospace,
Ultravox,
Can,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Wings,
the Sonics,
Lakeside,
The Litter,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Deepchord,
Janne Schatter,
The Count Five,
Surgeon,
Magma,
Aural Exciters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Cal Tjader,
The Real Kids,
Rakim,
Fluxion,
Cymande,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Holt,
AZ,
Arab on Radar,
The Motions,
Porter Ricks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
DJ Sneak,
Depeche Mode,
X-102,
Darondo,
Rapeman,
The Smiths,
Easy Going,
Pussy Galore,
Delta 5,
Donald Byrd,
Colin Newman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
A Certain Ratio,
The Gap Band,
One Last Wish,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.