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 Malaysia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All T.S.O.L. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brick record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
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,
Swell Maps,
Peter & Gordon,
The Move,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dawn Penn,
Lower 48,
Rekid,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Fugs,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
X-101,
Bobby Womack,
It's A Beautiful Day,
JFA,
Jesper Dahlback,
R.M.O.,
The Neon Judgement,
Surgeon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Babytalk,
Zero Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
Robert Görl,
Ultra Naté,
Shuggie Otis,
The Walker Brothers,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Spoonie Gee,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Los Fastidios,
Chris & Cosey,
Electric Prunes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sparks,
Von Mondo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Young Rascals,
Wings,
Magazine,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Alton Ellis,
The Fall,
10cc,
Radio Birdman,
The Monochrome Set,
Eric B and Rakim,
Heaven 17,
The Birthday Party,
The Martian,
Rapeman,
Audionom,
Gang Starr,
Matthew Halsall,
Drive Like Jehu,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.