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 Ireland and from Calgary.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 World's Most to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
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,
Drexciya,
John Lydon,
D'Angelo,
Smog,
Hasil Adkins,
Harry Pussy,
Public Enemy,
Parry Music,
The Slackers,
New York Dolls,
Howard Jones,
Wire,
John Coltrane,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pierre Henry,
Kevin Saunderson,
kango's stein massive,
Henry Cow,
X-Ray Spex,
Adolescents,
the Bar-Kays,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tropical Tobacco,
Thompson Twins,
Dual Sessions,
Ossler,
June Days,
Mission of Burma,
CMW,
La Düsseldorf,
Nirvana,
Junior Murvin,
Jacob Miller,
The Gladiators,
Con Funk Shun,
Robert Wyatt,
Massinfluence,
Glenn Branca,
ABC,
Alison Limerick,
Funky Four + One,
Blake Baxter,
The Vogues,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lebanon Hanover,
Moss Icon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yaz,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Altered Images,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Soulsonic Force,
Dark Day,
The Smiths,
Jandek,
Lou Reed,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.