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 Russia and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 oboe 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 Sight & Sound to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sister Nancy. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear 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?
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Procol Harum,
Swell Maps,
The Human League,
the Normal,
Gang Green,
John Lydon,
Funkadelic,
Wolf Eyes,
E-Dancer,
The Fall,
Monolake,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
Accadde A,
Dave Gahan,
the Swans,
Saccharine Trust,
The Modern Lovers,
Thee Headcoats,
EPMD,
Radio Birdman,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kevin Saunderson,
Blossom Toes,
MDC,
Aswad,
a-ha,
The Birthday Party,
Josef K,
The Move,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lakeside,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Yaz,
The American Breed,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Khruangbin,
Minny Pops,
Mr. Review,
Jerry's Kids,
The Sisters of Mercy,
June of 44,
Ronnie Foster,
X-Ray Spex,
Mo-Dettes,
La Düsseldorf,
F. McDonald,
Electric Prunes,
Skarface,
Banda Bassotti,
The Misunderstood,
the Fania All-Stars,
Maurizio,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pantytec,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Velvet Underground,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Grass Roots,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.