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 Fiji and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Cairo.
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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 AZ to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Ice-T. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiohead 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron 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 mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
Howard Jones,
Quando Quango,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cluster,
The Gladiators,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Half Japanese,
OOIOO,
This Heat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Terry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Dead Boys,
Andrew Hill,
John Lydon,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Saccharine Trust,
Jeru the Damaja,
Lyres,
Parry Music,
Pierre Henry,
Jeff Mills,
The Associates,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Patti Smith,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Halsall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Accadde A,
Lightning Bolt,
The Dave Clark Five,
Shoche,
Niagra,
Alphaville,
R.M.O.,
Ten City,
Bill Wells,
X-101,
Negative Approach,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Zeros,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aloha Tigers,
Kayak,
The Searchers,
Scott Walker,
Mr. Review,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Cal Tjader,
Tom Boy,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Depeche Mode,
Silicon Teens,
Fad Gadget,
Bobby Sherman,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.