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 Belgium and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Dirtbombs to the grunge 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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Average White Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
F. McDonald,
Buzzcocks,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Thompson Twins,
Ronnie Foster,
Joy Division,
World's Most,
In Retrospect,
Alphaville,
Neu!,
Mark Hollis,
Wire,
Nils Olav,
The Neon Judgement,
Joe Finger,
Leonard Cohen,
The Associates,
Audionom,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joensuu 1685,
Fat Boys,
The Smiths,
Warsaw,
Johnny Osbourne,
Inner City,
Ten City,
Ludus,
Hoover,
Frankie Knuckles,
Robert Görl,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Smog,
The Motions,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
the Human League,
The Residents,
The Raincoats,
Nick Fraelich,
Ohio Players,
The Star Department,
Symarip,
MDC,
Josef K,
David McCallum,
Sister Nancy,
Basic Channel,
the Swans,
The Count Five,
The Human League,
Grey Daturas,
Harmonia,
Glenn Branca,
Little Man,
The Mummies,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gang Green,
Maleditus Sound,
Von Mondo,
Marc Almond,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe, Be Bop Deluxe.
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.