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 Colombia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Black Bananas to the disco 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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 synthesizer and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nirvana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
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,
Howard Jones,
The Residents,
Stetsasonic,
Kenny Larkin,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Smoke,
Delon & Dalcan,
Agitation Free,
Scott Walker,
Dennis Brown,
Eli Mardock,
Skarface,
Idris Muhammad,
The Selecter,
Matthew Bourne,
Warren Ellis,
Glenn Branca,
Franke,
Todd Rundgren,
Hasil Adkins,
Organ,
The Wake,
Kerrie Biddell,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
MC5,
Amon Düül II,
DNA,
Bobby Hutcherson,
L. Decosne,
The Victims,
The Beau Brummels,
Girls At Our Best!,
Nico,
The American Breed,
Man Parrish,
The Evens,
David McCallum,
Colin Newman,
Bang On A Can,
Lungfish,
John Cale,
Nik Kershaw,
Kurtis Blow,
Khruangbin,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Magazine,
The Misunderstood,
Soul Sonic Force,
Dual Sessions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mark Hollis,
Technova,
Television Personalities,
Country Teasers,
LL Cool J,
The United States of America,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Second Layer,
Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol, Gastr Del Sol.
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.