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 Mongolia and from Delhi.
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 Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Robert Görl to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pagans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Girls At Our Best!,
OOIOO,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Roy Ayers,
Circle Jerks,
Joe Finger,
DNA,
Derrick Morgan,
Eric Dolphy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ponytail,
Boz Scaggs,
Icehouse,
Groovy Waters,
Mantronix,
The Residents,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Joy Division,
Archie Shepp,
Tomorrow,
Dawn Penn,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Unrelated Segments,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Association,
Scratch Acid,
Duran Duran,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Toasters,
Flipper,
Panda Bear,
Don Cherry,
Rites of Spring,
Pantaleimon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donny Hathaway,
Bush Tetras,
MC5,
Piero Umiliani,
The Cure,
Gerry Rafferty,
Magazine,
Adolescents,
Electric Prunes,
Liliput,
Porter Ricks,
Henry Cow,
The Tremeloes,
MDC,
ABC,
Judy Mowatt,
Nas,
LL Cool J,
Aloha Tigers,
The Martian,
The Last Poets,
Camouflage,
ABBA,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.