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 Madagascar and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Crime to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The American Breed 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
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,
Visage,
Infiniti,
Goldenarms,
kango's stein massive,
Kevin Saunderson,
Thompson Twins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Moody Blues,
Shuggie Otis,
The Offenders,
Pet Shop Boys,
Subhumans,
The Monochrome Set,
The Associates,
MC5,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kayak,
F. McDonald,
Magazine,
Electric Prunes,
B.T. Express,
The Dirtbombs,
Joey Negro,
Bobby Hutcherson,
UT,
Ronnie Foster,
Jacques Brel,
Graham Central Station,
Sister Nancy,
Alton Ellis,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Drexciya,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Terry Callier,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Motions,
Ronan,
Alphaville,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gang of Four,
Fat Boys,
the Slits,
Flash Fearless,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Black Moon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sixth Finger,
Pylon,
Q and Not U,
Nick Fraelich,
Surgeon,
Henry Cow,
Stereo Dub,
Delon & Dalcan,
Siglo XX,
Quantec,
DJ Style,
Neu!,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.