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 Monaco and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 David Bowie 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 Rotary Connection to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All The Angels of Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Al Stewart 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer 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?
Joey Negro,
The Sonics,
Roxette,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Peter and Kerry,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Vogues,
Peter & Gordon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Boogie Down Productions,
Derrick Morgan,
Pierre Henry,
Mission of Burma,
The Doobie Brothers,
Deepchord,
X-101,
Easy Going,
The Monks,
Eric Dolphy,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Buckinghams,
The Fall,
Glambeats Corp.,
Popol Vuh,
The Toasters,
Ultra Naté,
Neu!,
Alice Coltrane,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Five Americans,
World's Most,
The Dirtbombs,
Bauhaus,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Holt,
Sister Nancy,
Brass Construction,
Black Flag,
D'Angelo,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tres Demented,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Moleskins,
Franke,
Amazonics,
MDC,
Morten Harket,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Dave Gahan,
Jesper Dahlback,
Make Up,
Archie Shepp,
Nik Kershaw,
Glenn Branca,
Moebius,
The New Christs,
Maleditus Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Happenings,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.