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 Liberia and from Woodstock.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Walker Brothers to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 linndrum 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Sam Rivers,
Blossom Toes,
Altered Images,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eurythmics,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Flash Fearless,
Joey Negro,
The Moleskins,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Country Teasers,
Quantec,
JFA,
Negative Approach,
Brand Nubian,
Deakin,
EPMD,
Duran Duran,
Lungfish,
H. Thieme,
LL Cool J,
Scratch Acid,
Aloha Tigers,
Lalann,
Saccharine Trust,
Soft Cell,
Lucky Dragons,
Monks,
Scion,
The Detroit Cobras,
Charles Mingus,
The Shadows of Knight,
Roxy Music,
The Invisible,
Urselle,
Freddie Wadling,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Monks,
In Retrospect,
Chris & Cosey,
Kevin Saunderson,
Ultravox,
K-Klass,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barclay James Harvest,
Tears for Fears,
Nik Kershaw,
Mo-Dettes,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Raincoats,
The Wake,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Velvet Underground,
Amon Düül,
Crispian St. Peters,
Maleditus Sound,
Sixth Finger,
the Bar-Kays,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wire,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.