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 Ukraine and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 June of 44 to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator 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 linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Outsiders,
Wire,
Model 500,
Liliput,
Aswad,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Guru Guru,
Jandek,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nas,
Funky Four + One,
Average White Band,
Aural Exciters,
Eden Ahbez,
The Stooges,
Faraquet,
Tommy Roe,
Minor Threat,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Easy Going,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerri Chandler,
June Days,
Sam Rivers,
Schoolly D,
Groovy Waters,
Tubeway Army,
John Coltrane,
Silicon Teens,
This Heat,
The Blackbyrds,
Crime,
Nick Fraelich,
Terrestrial Tones,
Moss Icon,
Drexciya,
Neu!,
Ronan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Steve Hackett,
Roxy Music,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Offenders,
Motorama,
H. Thieme,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Busters,
Scrapy,
Brothers Johnson,
Wasted Youth,
Mr. Review,
The Shadows of Knight,
Adolescents,
Eric B and Rakim,
The New Christs,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Smoke,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Audionom, Audionom, Audionom, Audionom.
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.