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 Cuba and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 Letta Mbulu to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba 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 chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Blackbyrds,
Chrome,
Eurythmics,
Tom Boy,
the Germs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Hashim,
Marine Girls,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Agitation Free,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Michelle Simonal,
Pantytec,
Sound Behaviour,
Simply Red,
Ken Boothe,
Basic Channel,
Camouflage,
Roy Ayers,
Massinfluence,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Crash Course in Science,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Divine Comedy,
The Star Department,
The Fuzztones,
Minnie Riperton,
Japan,
The Skatalites,
Yaz,
Pagans,
Skarface,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marvin Gaye,
Skaos,
Sex Pistols,
Toni Rubio,
Audionom,
Bootsy Collins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Radiohead,
Idris Muhammad,
Prince Buster,
Slave,
Tears for Fears,
Scientists,
The Offenders,
Kas Product,
Talk Talk,
Steve Hackett,
Radio Birdman,
Sun Ra,
Wally Richardson,
Zero Boys,
Dark Day,
Nils Olav,
Scrapy,
Outsiders,
Easy Going,
the Fania All-Stars,
Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band, Average White Band.
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.