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 Malaysia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Unwound to the jazz 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal 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 sitar and a clarinet 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 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Surgeon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Blossom Toes,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
New Age Steppers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Human League,
Sound Behaviour,
Gang Gang Dance,
Matthew Halsall,
Pussy Galore,
The Fall,
K-Klass,
Ornette Coleman,
The Detroit Cobras,
Roxy Music,
Darondo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Animal Collective,
Bill Wells,
David Axelrod,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Piero Umiliani,
L. Decosne,
Eurythmics,
Crime,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun City Girls,
Patti Smith,
Erasure,
Funky Four + One,
Visage,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Circle Jerks,
Kas Product,
Sex Pistols,
The Doors,
David Bowie,
LL Cool J,
John Coltrane,
Soul II Soul,
Hot Snakes,
David McCallum,
Public Image Ltd.,
Country Teasers,
Chrome,
Dark Day,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Gong,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker,
Qualms,
DJ Style,
Chris & Cosey,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Loose Ends,
Eden Ahbez,
Frankie Knuckles,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.