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 Ecuador and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 The Cure to the funk 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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All The Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar 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 organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Jimmy McGriff,
Graham Central Station,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
OOIOO,
Young Marble Giants,
Rosa Yemen,
Barrington Levy,
John Lydon,
Erykah Badu,
Minor Threat,
Eric Dolphy,
Absolute Body Control,
Amon Düül,
Brass Construction,
The Cure,
Mary Jane Girls,
Alphaville,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Banda Bassotti,
Heaven 17,
Joey Negro,
The Blackbyrds,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eurythmics,
Duran Duran,
Tommy Roe,
Black Bananas,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Motorama,
Q and Not U,
Zero Boys,
Mission of Burma,
June Days,
The Grass Roots,
Slave,
the Normal,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rekid,
Nas,
Supertramp,
The Modern Lovers,
Drive Like Jehu,
Michelle Simonal,
Ronnie Foster,
Pole,
Skaos,
Lakeside,
Ice-T,
Tubeway Army,
Unrelated Segments,
The Fire Engines,
Lyres,
AZ,
Derrick May,
Jacob Miller,
Royal Trux,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camouflage,
Buzzcocks,
Stetsasonic,
Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.
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.