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 Macedonia and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Pulsallama to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deepchord record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 clarinet and a harpsichord 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 oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Wings,
Audionom,
Lou Reed,
Circle Jerks,
The Fuzztones,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ultravox,
Soulsonic Force,
The Seeds,
Outsiders,
Rod Modell,
Sugar Minott,
Index,
Infiniti,
Camberwell Now,
The Mojo Men,
Delta 5,
Radio Birdman,
Man Parrish,
Massinfluence,
LL Cool J,
Sparks,
The Smoke,
Minutemen,
The Fortunes,
Eric Dolphy,
The Victims,
Neu!,
Spoonie Gee,
Alton Ellis,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Electric Prunes,
June Days,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Arthur Verocai,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Masters at Work,
Second Layer,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Cure,
Cameo,
The Names,
Lower 48,
The Invisible,
Toni Rubio,
Nick Fraelich,
The Moleskins,
Guru Guru,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jawbox,
Pere Ubu,
The Happenings,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.