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 Ghana and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the 808 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 Simply Red to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Velvet Underground. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin 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 mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
the Germs,
Eric B and Rakim,
PIL,
The Modern Lovers,
John Foxx,
Bauhaus,
Parry Music,
Colin Newman,
Barrington Levy,
Circle Jerks,
Mary Jane Girls,
Banda Bassotti,
Ohio Players,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Music Machine,
The Motions,
Max Romeo,
Moss Icon,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eric Dolphy,
The Durutti Column,
Bobby Womack,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Beau Brummels,
Pharoah Sanders,
Half Japanese,
Second Layer,
Duran Duran,
Avey Tare,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Monochrome Set,
Black Pus,
Ituana,
Gichy Dan,
Donny Hathaway,
Slick Rick,
The Dirtbombs,
Clear Light,
B.T. Express,
Marmalade,
Reuben Wilson,
Bang On A Can,
The Victims,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fortunes,
Mark Hollis,
Infiniti,
the Association,
Ronnie Foster,
Glambeats Corp.,
the Normal,
Young Marble Giants,
Laurel Aitken,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
L. Decosne,
Hot Snakes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.