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 Malawi and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the dance 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 Kerri Chandler. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer 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 guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Todd Terry,
John Foxx,
Tomorrow,
cv313,
Essential Logic,
The Gladiators,
John Lydon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Banda Bassotti,
June of 44,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ituana,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Guru Guru,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Deepchord,
Lee Hazlewood,
Skarface,
Lower 48,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Idris Muhammad,
Interpol,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
The Music Machine,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Jesper Dahlback,
Michelle Simonal,
The Electric Prunes,
Ohio Players,
Slave,
Make Up,
Alphaville,
The Star Department,
Fela Kuti,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Drive Like Jehu,
Sun City Girls,
Underground Resistance,
Erykah Badu,
Jacques Brel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
JFA,
The Selecter,
Clear Light,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Shoche,
Massinfluence,
Thee Headcoats,
Piero Umiliani,
Rapeman,
Mary Jane Girls,
Accadde A,
The Velvet Underground,
The Monks,
Duran Duran,
Crash Course in Science,
Agitation Free,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Rahsaan Roland Kirk.
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.