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 Grenada and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 ABBA to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nik Kershaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
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,
Pole,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Wolf Eyes,
Reagan Youth,
Fear,
The Leaves,
Black Bananas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Techniques,
Crash Course in Science,
Trumans Water,
Roxy Music,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Misunderstood,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crooked Eye,
Von Mondo,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lindisfarne,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bad Manners,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Camberwell Now,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Detroit Cobras,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pere Ubu,
Ken Boothe,
The Happenings,
Sparks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Skarface,
Gichy Dan,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tears for Fears,
Yellowson,
The Move,
Whodini,
Sandy B,
The Flesh Eaters,
Yusef Lateef,
Roy Ayers,
JFA,
Pulsallama,
Drexciya,
Scott Walker,
Spandau Ballet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Traffic Nightmare,
Gastr Del Sol,
Avey Tare,
Stockholm Monsters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
cv313,
The Gladiators,
Blake Baxter,
Ultravox,
Deadbeat,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.