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 Estonia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 rhodes 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 Urselle to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Cure. All the underground hits.
All The Men They Couldn't Hang tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sight & Sound 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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,
Ronnie Foster,
World's Most,
Sandy B,
Y Pants,
The Martian,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Alison Limerick,
Angry Samoans,
Mission of Burma,
Deakin,
Todd Rundgren,
Marshall Jefferson,
Index,
Arab on Radar,
Underground Resistance,
The Star Department,
10cc,
Desert Stars,
Bill Wells,
Lou Christie,
Faraquet,
Scan 7,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Pharoah Sanders,
David Axelrod,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Electric Prunes,
Eric B and Rakim,
Yusef Lateef,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sam Rivers,
Todd Terry,
Fluxion,
The Zeros,
cv313,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Panda Bear,
These Immortal Souls,
Organ,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
ABC,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Public Image Ltd.,
Heaven 17,
Aural Exciters,
Spoonie Gee,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ten City,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Rapeman,
Ice-T,
Hasil Adkins,
Jeff Lynne,
Parry Music,
LL Cool J,
Althea and Donna,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sällskapet,
Kas Product,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.