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 Ireland and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Remains to the jazz 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Deakin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Saints record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a harpsichord 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 synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
FM Einheit,
Cybotron,
Procol Harum,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Young Marble Giants,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Accadde A,
Marshall Jefferson,
K-Klass,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Black Flag,
John Foxx,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pantytec,
the Swans,
Oneida,
The Real Kids,
The Cure,
Amon Düül II,
Masters at Work,
Pole,
Soul II Soul,
Eurythmics,
Colin Newman,
Reuben Wilson,
Wally Richardson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Maurizio,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Amon Düül,
Albert Ayler,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Reed,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Scrapy,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Toasters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Soft Cell,
Don Cherry,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Letta Mbulu,
X-Ray Spex,
Davy DMX,
Sun Ra,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Modern Lovers,
Bluetip,
Ludus,
Erasure,
Bill Wells,
The Fugs,
Ronnie Foster,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.