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 Vanuatu and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 arpeggiator 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the jazz 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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
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,
Adolescents,
Robert Wyatt,
Lou Christie,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Barracudas,
The Residents,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Nico,
Procol Harum,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Barrington Levy,
Lee Hazlewood,
Magazine,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Grauzone,
The Blackbyrds,
The Electric Prunes,
Section 25,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Smog,
ABBA,
The Angels of Light,
Bauhaus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Skarface,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bluetip,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cal Tjader,
Circle Jerks,
Amon Düül,
Vainqueur,
Camouflage,
Clear Light,
Don Cherry,
Wolf Eyes,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Bad Manners,
Arcadia,
Slave,
New Age Steppers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Khruangbin,
Ronnie Foster,
Second Layer,
Grey Daturas,
Iggy Pop,
the Germs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Tears for Fears,
Easy Going,
Johnny Clarke,
Basic Channel,
The Five Americans,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Star Department,
Sugar Minott,
Visage,
Television Personalities,
Ice-T,
Masters at Work,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.