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 France and from Madrid.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the organ 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 Reagan Youth to the disco 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a L. Decosne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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,
Sällskapet,
Kaleidoscope,
Amazonics,
Quantec,
Mad Mike,
Parry Music,
DNA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Crime,
The Birthday Party,
The Remains,
Essential Logic,
Desert Stars,
Funky Four + One,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Raincoats,
Max Romeo,
Gang of Four,
The Seeds,
Eden Ahbez,
Chris & Cosey,
Rapeman,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Saccharine Trust,
Sonny Sharrock,
John Foxx,
David McCallum,
Prince Buster,
Con Funk Shun,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Human League,
Ronnie Foster,
Idris Muhammad,
The Gap Band,
Jeff Mills,
Donald Byrd,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Don Cherry,
The Wake,
Joey Negro,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bush Tetras,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Fat Boys,
Davy DMX,
JFA,
Spoonie Gee,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Mummies,
The Count Five,
Fatback Band,
Iggy Pop,
Chris Corsano,
Derrick Morgan,
Liliput,
Albert Ayler,
The Fall,
In Retrospect,
Neu!,
Basic Channel,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.