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 Burundi and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the marimba 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 Crash Course in Science to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Faraquet. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a güiro 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 guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Unrelated Segments,
Marmalade,
Model 500,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Cymande,
a-ha,
Essential Logic,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Gories,
Al Stewart,
These Immortal Souls,
Byron Stingily,
Kool Moe Dee,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Amon Düül,
The Cramps,
10cc,
Judy Mowatt,
Loose Ends,
Nirvana,
Fear,
Deadbeat,
Accadde A,
Qualms,
Television,
Hasil Adkins,
Todd Rundgren,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Johnny Osbourne,
Dual Sessions,
CMW,
Lucky Dragons,
Sarah Menescal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Young Rascals,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Saints,
The Black Dice,
Banda Bassotti,
Reuben Wilson,
The Count Five,
Severed Heads,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Cheater Slicks,
Hot Snakes,
Oneida,
Icehouse,
Monolake,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eddi Front,
Marine Girls,
Archie Shepp,
Silicon Teens,
The Raincoats,
Nas,
The J.B.'s,
The Invisible,
OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO, OOIOO.
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.