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 Bulgaria and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 rhodes 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 Model 500 to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes 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 spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Fad Gadget,
Blake Baxter,
Joe Finger,
EPMD,
Johnny Clarke,
Eric Copeland,
Deadbeat,
Ossler,
Patti Smith,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Beau Brummels,
Robert Görl,
Swans,
Yusef Lateef,
the Normal,
Delta 5,
Amon Düül II,
Guru Guru,
The Moleskins,
Excepter,
Derrick Morgan,
Faust,
Sonic Youth,
the Human League,
Lower 48,
The Remains,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bluetip,
Brass Construction,
Bootsy Collins,
Negative Approach,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Vladislav Delay,
Sun Ra,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott Heron,
Soul II Soul,
Scott Walker,
Heaven 17,
Nas,
The Flesh Eaters,
Charles Mingus,
Eddi Front,
Minutemen,
The Fall,
Darondo,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Lee Hazlewood,
Yellowson,
The Toasters,
Banda Bassotti,
Pussy Galore,
Eurythmics,
Qualms,
Max Romeo,
Roxette,
James White and The Blacks,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.