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 Georgia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Woodstock.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Scientists to the punk 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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Evens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacques Brel,
Lou Reed,
JFA,
Dorothy Ashby,
Sister Nancy,
Television,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Jacob Miller,
Dawn Penn,
Reuben Wilson,
The Move,
The Detroit Cobras,
China Crisis,
The Cramps,
June of 44,
David Bowie,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cymande,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
James White and The Blacks,
KRS-One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Smiths,
The Birthday Party,
The Trojans,
Camouflage,
the Sonics,
Lee Hazlewood,
David McCallum,
Arab on Radar,
The Sound,
Ralphi Rosario,
Isaac Hayes,
Ultravox,
Joe Finger,
Funky Four + One,
the Normal,
Avey Tare,
Anakelly,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mission of Burma,
The Real Kids,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Index,
DNA,
Man Eating Sloth,
X-101,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Little Man,
Trumans Water,
John Lydon,
Television Personalities,
Negative Approach,
Talk Talk,
The American Breed,
Massinfluence,
Animal Collective,
Shuggie Otis,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.