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 Peru and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Surgeon to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Davy DMX. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator 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?
Faust,
Soft Machine,
June Days,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Misunderstood,
Q and Not U,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kool Moe Dee,
Average White Band,
Deadbeat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Archie Shepp,
Iggy Pop,
Ice-T,
Boz Scaggs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Delta 5,
Erasure,
Clear Light,
Ronnie Foster,
F. McDonald,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Mummies,
The Monks,
Jawbox,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
the Slits,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sixth Finger,
MDC,
The Monochrome Set,
Intrusion,
Ronan,
Soul II Soul,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Danielle Patucci,
Alton Ellis,
Television,
Negative Approach,
Bobby Sherman,
Simply Red,
Urselle,
JFA,
Carl Craig,
Harmonia,
Bob Dylan,
Make Up,
Slave,
New Age Steppers,
Talk Talk,
Bang On A Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Neil Young,
Stetsasonic,
Yazoo,
The Searchers,
DNA,
The Star Department,
Brothers Johnson,
Liliput,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.