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 Argentina and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 the Sonics to the techno 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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
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,
Toni Rubio,
Slave,
Gang Green,
OOIOO,
The Dead C,
Accadde A,
X-Ray Spex,
LL Cool J,
The Gories,
Bobby Womack,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Blues Magoos,
Camberwell Now,
Bill Near,
Peter and Kerry,
Judy Mowatt,
Cheater Slicks,
World's Most,
The Sonics,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joensuu 1685,
ABC,
Pantaleimon,
Bizarre Inc.,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Monolake,
The Stooges,
The Evens,
Vladislav Delay,
Anthony Braxton,
Metal Thangz,
Todd Terry,
The J.B.'s,
Arthur Verocai,
Nas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Chris & Cosey,
Fad Gadget,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Donny Hathaway,
Fatback Band,
Agent Orange,
The Barracudas,
Swell Maps,
Matthew Halsall,
EPMD,
Bobby Sherman,
A Certain Ratio,
Talk Talk,
The Electric Prunes,
The Shadows of Knight,
Grauzone,
Half Japanese,
Khruangbin,
Eli Mardock,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gang Gang Dance,
Alton Ellis,
Crispy Ambulance,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.