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 Kiribati and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Connie Case to the funk 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin 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 spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Althea and Donna,
Pylon,
Excepter,
Dual Sessions,
Rapeman,
Loose Ends,
Model 500,
Fluxion,
Television,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Negative Approach,
The Birthday Party,
Y Pants,
Rod Modell,
Black Pus,
Janne Schatter,
Ronnie Foster,
Cecil Taylor,
Quadrant,
Q65,
Pere Ubu,
Clear Light,
Gang Gang Dance,
Grey Daturas,
Accadde A,
R.M.O.,
The Count Five,
These Immortal Souls,
Derrick May,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Mark Hollis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Vainqueur,
Technova,
Moby Grape,
Steve Hackett,
This Heat,
Alton Ellis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Standells,
Danielle Patucci,
Sparks,
Todd Terry,
The Misunderstood,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Talk Talk,
Pharoah Sanders,
Panda Bear,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Moody Blues,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Eden Ahbez,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Busters,
Bob Dylan,
Skarface,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.