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 Kuwait and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the snare 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the electroclash 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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All 48th St. Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro 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 chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roy Ayers,
Maleditus Sound,
Steve Hackett,
Supertramp,
Massinfluence,
Erykah Badu,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bad Manners,
Masters at Work,
Prince Buster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Blackbyrds,
DJ Sneak,
New Age Steppers,
Spandau Ballet,
Scratch Acid,
Symarip,
Liliput,
Robert Wyatt,
One Last Wish,
Stetsasonic,
Duran Duran,
AZ,
The Zeros,
Morten Harket,
K-Klass,
Aloha Tigers,
Graham Central Station,
Echospace,
Index,
Panda Bear,
Second Layer,
Main Source,
10cc,
Icehouse,
Dead Boys,
David Bowie,
ABC,
Scientists,
X-102,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Maurizio,
Mission of Burma,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mummies,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Harpers Bizarre,
Alphaville,
The Remains,
Tim Buckley,
Michelle Simonal,
D'Angelo,
Kenny Larkin,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grauzone,
The Gap Band,
The Neon Judgement,
The Invisible,
Easy Going,
Lee Hazlewood,
Donald Byrd,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Wasted Youth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.