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 Germany and from Copenhagen.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar 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 Colin Newman to the punk 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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum 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 synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Suburban Knight,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mark Hollis,
Pierre Henry,
Eric Dolphy,
Todd Terry,
Arab on Radar,
Sun City Girls,
Blossom Toes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Amazonics,
The Tremeloes,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eyeless In Gaza,
JFA,
John Cale,
Nico,
KRS-One,
John Foxx,
Black Flag,
The Names,
Reuben Wilson,
Moebius,
Sixth Finger,
The Young Rascals,
The Blues Magoos,
Fatback Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Motorama,
the Human League,
Davy DMX,
The Techniques,
Lou Reed,
Bush Tetras,
Dual Sessions,
Wally Richardson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gap Band,
The Victims,
Organ,
Dorothy Ashby,
Animal Collective,
The Grass Roots,
Ludus,
Gastr Del Sol,
Mission of Burma,
PIL,
Circle Jerks,
Flash Fearless,
Young Marble Giants,
Buzzcocks,
Rakim,
The Doobie Brothers,
Franke,
Henry Cow,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Country Teasers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Fela Kuti,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.