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 Italy and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Blossom Toes to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a harpsichord and a rhodes 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 linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Motions,
T. Rex,
Bob Dylan,
The Star Department,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pet Shop Boys,
Sam Rivers,
Depeche Mode,
Agent Orange,
The American Breed,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Bourne,
Mary Jane Girls,
Minor Threat,
Deepchord,
David McCallum,
Jimmy McGriff,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
K-Klass,
Mission of Burma,
Robert Görl,
Talk Talk,
Jacques Brel,
Roger Hodgson,
Audionom,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Fad Gadget,
Bizarre Inc.,
Zero Boys,
Darondo,
The Litter,
The J.B.'s,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eddi Front,
Dave Gahan,
The Black Dice,
Siglo XX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jerry's Kids,
CMW,
Gabor Szabo,
New York Dolls,
Surgeon,
the Sonics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Cheater Slicks,
Suburban Knight,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Black Pus,
The Detroit Cobras,
Grandmaster Flash,
Q65,
Aloha Tigers,
The Standells,
Bluetip,
Soul Sonic Force,
Y Pants,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.