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 Pakistan and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 organ 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 Surgeon to the rap 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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
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,
Juan Atkins,
Jesper Dahlback,
10cc,
Young Marble Giants,
Kerri Chandler,
Q and Not U,
Vainqueur,
Pantytec,
Accadde A,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Oneida,
Electric Light Orchestra,
These Immortal Souls,
Amon Düül II,
The Vogues,
Heaven 17,
Marcia Griffiths,
Robert Wyatt,
China Crisis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Radiohead,
Circle Jerks,
Television Personalities,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Cramps,
The Divine Comedy,
Brick,
Erasure,
The Offenders,
Country Joe & The Fish,
L. Decosne,
Massinfluence,
The Techniques,
Television,
Mad Mike,
The Names,
Colin Newman,
Tim Buckley,
Magma,
Warren Ellis,
Patti Smith,
The Wake,
Babytalk,
Intrusion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Moody Blues,
Duran Duran,
H. Thieme,
The Gories,
Nik Kershaw,
Ultravox,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Doors,
Country Teasers,
Bush Tetras,
CMW,
Arcadia,
Urselle,
Peter & Gordon,
Henry Cow,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.