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 Bahamas and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Subhumans to the techno 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 The Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ 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 an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Delta 5,
Jesper Dahlback,
Erykah Badu,
Black Flag,
Mark Hollis,
Deepchord,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
John Cale,
Interpol,
The Saints,
Simply Red,
Warren Ellis,
The Index,
Essential Logic,
D'Angelo,
Crispy Ambulance,
Funky Four + One,
Sun Ra,
Boredoms,
the Swans,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Traffic Nightmare,
Alice Coltrane,
Sight & Sound,
Swell Maps,
Cluster,
The Smoke,
Tubeway Army,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bang On A Can,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sixth Finger,
Franke,
The Moleskins,
OOIOO,
Colin Newman,
Arab on Radar,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Buckinghams,
Mo-Dettes,
Can,
The Five Americans,
Skarface,
The Count Five,
Lightning Bolt,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barrington Levy,
Easy Going,
Slick Rick,
Infiniti,
Fatback Band,
The Residents,
Howard Jones,
Ken Boothe,
Bluetip,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Doors,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Oneida,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.