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 Austria and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the rap 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet 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 harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warsaw,
the Human League,
Procol Harum,
Icehouse,
A Certain Ratio,
the Slits,
Roy Ayers,
The Beau Brummels,
Brothers Johnson,
Jerry's Kids,
Banda Bassotti,
The Slits,
Sällskapet,
Lebanon Hanover,
Section 25,
Funky Four + One,
The Zeros,
Excepter,
Howard Jones,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gichy Dan,
Fluxion,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Y Pants,
Heaven 17,
Can,
Pole,
The Fall,
the Soft Cell,
The Human League,
MDC,
Bush Tetras,
Radio Birdman,
Lalann,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soft Machine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Niagra,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Monochrome Set,
E-Dancer,
The Pop Group,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Neu!,
KRS-One,
Hot Snakes,
The Count Five,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Bar-Kays,
Moby Grape,
Chris Corsano,
Young Marble Giants,
Reagan Youth,
The Moleskins,
Soulsonic Force,
Jeru the Damaja,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Symarip,
Smog,
The Fugs,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.