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 Cape Verde and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 Mexico City and Columbus.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Tom Boy to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 sitar 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 theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
Schoolly D,
Aswad,
Radiohead,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Barracudas,
Isaac Hayes,
Kerri Chandler,
Jandek,
The Young Rascals,
Scott Walker,
Angry Samoans,
The Motions,
Icehouse,
The Birthday Party,
Crooked Eye,
Andrew Hill,
the Soft Cell,
In Retrospect,
Eric Copeland,
Amon Düül,
The Vogues,
Wings,
Scion,
Duran Duran,
Funky Four + One,
Von Mondo,
Tommy Roe,
The Five Americans,
Bill Near,
The Doors,
The Smoke,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Skarface,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Raincoats,
Panda Bear,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
FM Einheit,
L. Decosne,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sister Nancy,
Echospace,
Stockholm Monsters,
Crash Course in Science,
Fluxion,
Quando Quango,
The Leaves,
Gabor Szabo,
Juan Atkins,
Dennis Brown,
Hot Snakes,
Porter Ricks,
Sarah Menescal,
Stereo Dub,
Freddie Wadling,
Royal Trux,
Harry Pussy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.