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 Micronesia and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Josef K to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Josef K 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron 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 mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Throbbing Gristle,
The Motions,
Von Mondo,
Rapeman,
Moss Icon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Toasters,
Swans,
One Last Wish,
The Zeros,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Walker Brothers,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ice-T,
Agitation Free,
Intrusion,
Barclay James Harvest,
Half Japanese,
Anthony Braxton,
Au Pairs,
Dawn Penn,
The Black Dice,
The J.B.'s,
Hardrive,
The Knickerbockers,
the Human League,
Silicon Teens,
Derrick Morgan,
Grauzone,
Gabor Szabo,
L. Decosne,
Tres Demented,
The Sound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Henry Cow,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Birthday Party,
Sister Nancy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jandek,
H. Thieme,
EPMD,
Ossler,
The Victims,
Yaz,
Joey Negro,
China Crisis,
Minutemen,
Hashim,
Bill Wells,
Nils Olav,
The Remains,
Fear,
Loose Ends,
Joe Smooth,
Kurtis Blow,
Cecil Taylor,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alphaville,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Scion,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.