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 Bahrain and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 Hong Kong and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
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 Nation of Ulysses to the jazz 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 Glambeats Corp.. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a marimba 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 chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Rosa Yemen,
Crime,
Ronan,
Stetsasonic,
Junior Murvin,
the Association,
Barrington Levy,
Johnny Osbourne,
UT,
Can,
Roy Ayers,
X-101,
Flipper,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Hoover,
The Last Poets,
Yaz,
Television Personalities,
John Holt,
MDC,
Kurtis Blow,
Ohio Players,
Clear Light,
China Crisis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Buckinghams,
cv313,
Marc Almond,
K-Klass,
Oneida,
X-Ray Spex,
ABC,
Q and Not U,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lightning Bolt,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Kaleidoscope,
Chrome,
Crispy Ambulance,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soul Sonic Force,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Brass Construction,
The Residents,
Delta 5,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Misunderstood,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Music Machine,
Whodini,
The Beau Brummels,
Echospace,
Cheater Slicks,
Carl Craig,
Fatback Band,
Drexciya,
Letta Mbulu,
Ice-T,
Nils Olav,
Ossler,
London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir, London Community Gospel Choir.
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.