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 Colombia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Clear Light 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Saints,
JFA,
Gang Green,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sam Rivers,
AZ,
China Crisis,
Interpol,
Sparks,
James White and The Blacks,
Chris Corsano,
Skaos,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Quadrant,
10cc,
Sound Behaviour,
Skarface,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
D'Angelo,
The Knickerbockers,
Loose Ends,
Dark Day,
Television,
Terry Callier,
the Normal,
Japan,
Bluetip,
John Coltrane,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The United States of America,
Fad Gadget,
Spoonie Gee,
Kas Product,
John Holt,
Tres Demented,
Rosa Yemen,
Sun Ra,
Bobby Byrd,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Flesh Eaters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Harmonia,
Blancmange,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Slits,
Reuben Wilson,
Circle Jerks,
Soulsonic Force,
Althea and Donna,
Absolute Body Control,
Stockholm Monsters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Sheep,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Susan Cadogan,
Pantytec,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Swans,
Moby Grape,
Charles Mingus,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Scientists,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.