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 Haiti and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Godley & Creme to the techno 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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar 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 an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Anakelly,
Sight & Sound,
China Crisis,
Zapp,
The Litter,
Mark Hollis,
Infiniti,
Bill Wells,
The Gun Club,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Fela Kuti,
Kas Product,
Janne Schatter,
The Human League,
Eric B and Rakim,
OOIOO,
The Moleskins,
Tim Buckley,
Fad Gadget,
Lightning Bolt,
48th St. Collective,
Lebanon Hanover,
Roxette,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Anthony Braxton,
Maurizio,
Mars,
The Real Kids,
Thee Headcoats,
The Searchers,
Rhythm & Sound,
One Last Wish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Faust,
Man Parrish,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kerrie Biddell,
Todd Terry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric Copeland,
L. Decosne,
Babytalk,
Magma,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Smog,
Gong,
Mantronix,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Unrelated Segments,
The Move,
Au Pairs,
Los Fastidios,
The Star Department,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Glenn Branca,
The Vogues,
AZ,
Tres Demented,
Bad Manners,
Oneida,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.