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 United Kingdom and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Richard Hell and the Voidoids to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Depeche Mode tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Count Five,
Crooked Eye,
Wally Richardson,
Duran Duran,
The Alarm Clocks,
Thompson Twins,
LL Cool J,
the Association,
The Happenings,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marcia Griffiths,
Matthew Bourne,
Terry Callier,
Joensuu 1685,
Gil Scott Heron,
Reagan Youth,
Sonic Youth,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Fuzztones,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Howard Jones,
The Fugs,
Supertramp,
Main Source,
New Age Steppers,
Sugar Minott,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Iggy Pop,
Vainqueur,
ABBA,
The Misunderstood,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Litter,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eli Mardock,
The Fortunes,
Television,
Oneida,
Erykah Badu,
Cal Tjader,
DJ Style,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Peter & Gordon,
China Crisis,
A Certain Ratio,
Negative Approach,
The Young Rascals,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Kinks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fela Kuti,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grauzone,
The Dave Clark Five,
Quando Quango,
The Shadows of Knight,
Severed Heads,
Zapp,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.