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 Lebanon and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 New Age Steppers to the jazz 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 The Blackbyrds. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slackers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sam Rivers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
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,
Alphaville,
Deepchord,
Lou Reed,
Lungfish,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Procol Harum,
Sound Behaviour,
The Pop Group,
Monolake,
Funky Four + One,
The Selecter,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Desert Stars,
This Heat,
Camouflage,
Man Eating Sloth,
Negative Approach,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Peter & Gordon,
Unwound,
Marmalade,
Gang Gang Dance,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Porter Ricks,
Drexciya,
The Neon Judgement,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fugazi,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The J.B.'s,
Leonard Cohen,
Ten City,
Kas Product,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Scan 7,
The Sound,
Trumans Water,
the Normal,
KRS-One,
Silicon Teens,
Alison Limerick,
The Grass Roots,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Franke,
JFA,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Knickerbockers,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Reuben Wilson,
Janne Schatter,
Mission of Burma,
Black Bananas,
Kerri Chandler,
Yazoo,
Jeff Mills,
Blossom Toes,
Siglo XX,
Sarah Menescal,
The Gun Club,
Unrelated Segments,
Lebanon Hanover,
Swell Maps,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.