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 Poland and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rapeman to the crunk 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 L. Decosne. All the underground hits.
All JFA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a L. Decosne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
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,
L. Decosne,
the Germs,
The Selecter,
Kerri Chandler,
Blake Baxter,
Peter and Kerry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Young Rascals,
Pulsallama,
PIL,
Bill Near,
Bluetip,
Gichy Dan,
Steve Hackett,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Derrick May,
Mars,
Altered Images,
The Kinks,
the Sonics,
Iggy Pop,
The J.B.'s,
Jandek,
The Five Americans,
The Divine Comedy,
Henry Cow,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Godley & Creme,
Gong,
Sarah Menescal,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Scratch Acid,
Aswad,
Jesper Dahlback,
cv313,
Radiopuhelimet,
Pylon,
Maurizio,
Subhumans,
New Age Steppers,
Fluxion,
Khruangbin,
Delta 5,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lakeside,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tears for Fears,
Byron Stingily,
Interpol,
Minny Pops,
AZ,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Fortunes,
Dorothy Ashby,
Essential Logic,
Toni Rubio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Terry Callier,
Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy, Barrington Levy.
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.