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 Monaco and from London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Peter & Gordon to the jazz 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Velvet Underground 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW 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,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lebanon Hanover,
Hardrive,
Sugar Minott,
Warsaw,
Skaos,
Animal Collective,
Eric Copeland,
Minutemen,
Young Marble Giants,
The Pretty Things,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Litter,
Ken Boothe,
Skriet,
Average White Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sam Rivers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Young Rascals,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Barbara Tucker,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Cowsills,
Schoolly D,
Arab on Radar,
Maurizio,
The American Breed,
Al Stewart,
Rekid,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Black Sheep,
Bizarre Inc.,
Anakelly,
Grandmaster Flash,
Oblivians,
Sex Pistols,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Japan,
Scratch Acid,
Donald Byrd,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blossom Toes,
Tim Buckley,
Hasil Adkins,
Crooked Eye,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grey Daturas,
Negative Approach,
The Vogues,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Gang Gang Dance,
The J.B.'s,
Brand Nubian,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Boogie Down Productions,
Von Mondo,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.