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 Jamaica and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Derrick Morgan to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Motions. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 linndrum 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 arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alice Coltrane,
Mo-Dettes,
The Sound,
Eden Ahbez,
Judy Mowatt,
Electric Prunes,
The Young Rascals,
48th St. Collective,
Oneida,
Rhythm & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sight & Sound,
Public Image Ltd.,
Dorothy Ashby,
Motorama,
Wire,
Gichy Dan,
John Holt,
Brand Nubian,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cheater Slicks,
Magazine,
Robert Hood,
Icehouse,
Make Up,
Johnny Osbourne,
Tomorrow,
Bauhaus,
Fat Boys,
The Motions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Smog,
T.S.O.L.,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Fortunes,
New Order,
The Kinks,
Gang Green,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dennis Brown,
Amazonics,
The Beau Brummels,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Terry Callier,
Bang On A Can,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Outsiders,
ABBA,
Babytalk,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Bill Near,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Dave Gahan,
Suicide,
10cc,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
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.