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 Turkey and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 oboe 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 Max Romeo to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare 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 linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Lakeside,
Circle Jerks,
Bauhaus,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Swans,
Main Source,
Average White Band,
Essential Logic,
Electric Prunes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Carl Craig,
Section 25,
T.S.O.L.,
Funky Four + One,
The Pretty Things,
T. Rex,
Nirvana,
Lightning Bolt,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Faust,
Brick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sister Nancy,
The Alarm Clocks,
Black Sheep,
Nico,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Albert Ayler,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cameo,
Dual Sessions,
Neu!,
Anthony Braxton,
The Birthday Party,
F. McDonald,
Marvin Gaye,
Kenny Larkin,
Aural Exciters,
The Skatalites,
Howard Jones,
Tomorrow,
Rekid,
Byron Stingily,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Newcleus,
Little Man,
Pantytec,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Real Kids,
Alphaville,
L. Decosne,
Theoretical Girls,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tommy Roe,
Bobby Sherman,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Warsaw,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.