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 Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the oboe 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 FM Einheit to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Ituana. All the underground hits.
All The Offenders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lyres 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a spring reverb 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 chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Public Image Ltd.,
Adolescents,
Ralphi Rosario,
Henry Cow,
Hardrive,
UT,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Move,
Anthony Braxton,
Derrick Morgan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Mary Jane Girls,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Malaria!,
Eddi Front,
Rhythm & Sound,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Cameo,
The Count Five,
Niagra,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Susan Cadogan,
Flash Fearless,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Dawn Penn,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pierre Henry,
Goldenarms,
Animal Collective,
Jacques Brel,
The Dirtbombs,
World's Most,
The Raincoats,
The Grass Roots,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gladiators,
Marc Almond,
T.S.O.L.,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Echospace,
Davy DMX,
Technova,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Happenings,
The Seeds,
Youth Brigade,
Big Daddy Kane,
Schoolly D,
The Real Kids,
Matthew Halsall,
Rosa Yemen,
Zapp,
Tim Buckley,
The Divine Comedy,
Delta 5,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.