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 Ghana and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Essential Logic to the grunge 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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a guitar 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 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?
The Durutti Column,
Cal Tjader,
Mad Mike,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dead C,
Fatback Band,
Funky Four + One,
The Toasters,
the Slits,
Y Pants,
Rekid,
Spoonie Gee,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Black Dice,
Donny Hathaway,
Harry Pussy,
Tubeway Army,
Skaos,
MC5,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Alphaville,
Pylon,
Adolescents,
Hasil Adkins,
Eddi Front,
Eric Copeland,
Ultravox,
the Swans,
Underground Resistance,
Tim Buckley,
Duran Duran,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Zeros,
Black Sheep,
Lower 48,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Robert Hood,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Skatalites,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Moby Grape,
Bush Tetras,
Bill Wells,
Ronan,
Lindisfarne,
Liliput,
Sexual Harrassment,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
New York Dolls,
Arcadia,
the Human League,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lou Reed,
Sight & Sound,
Agent Orange,
Soul II Soul,
The Birthday Party,
Susan Cadogan,
Black Bananas,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Henry Cow,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.