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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord 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 oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
Kurtis Blow,
Arab on Radar,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang Green,
Massinfluence,
Laurel Aitken,
China Crisis,
The Modern Lovers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Arthur Verocai,
Scott Walker,
DJ Style,
Fela Kuti,
Clear Light,
Rod Modell,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soulsonic Force,
The Martian,
The Gladiators,
Crash Course in Science,
Blake Baxter,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Newcleus,
Vainqueur,
Excepter,
The Smoke,
Ash Ra Tempel,
In Retrospect,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Neil Young,
Erykah Badu,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Terry Callier,
Spoonie Gee,
Fluxion,
Duran Duran,
Zapp,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül II,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Slave,
Hardrive,
Metal Thangz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Fear,
Urselle,
Marine Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
Ken Boothe,
The Buckinghams,
Funkadelic,
Pagans,
Bootsy Collins,
The Fugs,
Grey Daturas,
The Searchers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry, Pierre Henry.
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.