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 Cambodia 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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Mo-Dettes to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw 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 spring reverb and an oboe 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 synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Junior Murvin,
The Trojans,
AZ,
Chrome,
David Bowie,
H. Thieme,
John Coltrane,
Alphaville,
the Swans,
Jeff Mills,
Spoonie Gee,
Peter and Kerry,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Vogues,
Glambeats Corp.,
David McCallum,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nation of Ulysses,
B.T. Express,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Joe Finger,
Sugar Minott,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Man Parrish,
Chris & Cosey,
La Düsseldorf,
Pharoah Sanders,
Magma,
Cal Tjader,
Al Stewart,
The Knickerbockers,
Gang Starr,
Jacob Miller,
Chris Corsano,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Grey Daturas,
Pussy Galore,
Isaac Hayes,
Stiv Bators,
Robert Görl,
Joe Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Mojo Men,
Eve St. Jones,
Negative Approach,
Toni Rubio,
The Dave Clark Five,
ABBA,
Underground Resistance,
Stetsasonic,
Mission of Burma,
Lebanon Hanover,
Index,
Patti Smith,
Half Japanese,
Godley & Creme,
The Fuzztones,
The Smoke,
These Immortal Souls,
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.