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 Turkey and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 kango's stein massive. All the underground hits.
All Davy DMX tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Roger Hodgson,
The Wake,
Warren Ellis,
James White and The Blacks,
Reuben Wilson,
Vainqueur,
Jeff Mills,
The Young Rascals,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Star Department,
Suicide,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
48th St. Collective,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sexual Harrassment,
Robert Wyatt,
Judy Mowatt,
Colin Newman,
The Black Dice,
Section 25,
Crispy Ambulance,
Television Personalities,
Porter Ricks,
June Days,
the Swans,
The Gun Club,
The Golliwogs,
Schoolly D,
The Doors,
Swell Maps,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Radiohead,
Negative Approach,
The Human League,
Joey Negro,
Neu!,
Fela Kuti,
Bill Wells,
Ohio Players,
T.S.O.L.,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lalann,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Crispian St. Peters,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Barbara Tucker,
The Move,
The Standells,
the Germs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Blossom Toes,
Danielle Patucci,
The Slackers,
Roy Ayers,
Japan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Pop Group,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.