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 Korea South and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 snare 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 Black Flag to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a rhodes 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 rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Reagan Youth,
Symarip,
Connie Case,
The Fire Engines,
Danielle Patucci,
Motorama,
Jerry's Kids,
Porter Ricks,
Black Bananas,
Scott Walker,
Ituana,
Pagans,
Khruangbin,
The Martian,
Slave,
Quando Quango,
Smog,
John Lydon,
Oneida,
Massinfluence,
Arthur Verocai,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
X-102,
Joy Division,
Youth Brigade,
Skriet,
In Retrospect,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Litter,
Michelle Simonal,
Negative Approach,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Eurythmics,
Swell Maps,
the Fania All-Stars,
Malaria!,
The Zeros,
Average White Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Flash Fearless,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Cowsills,
Soft Cell,
Lakeside,
The Young Rascals,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Don Cherry,
Ten City,
Bush Tetras,
June Days,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Graham Central Station,
Funky Four + One,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cure,
Ken Boothe,
Grauzone,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.