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 Canada and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Ash Ra Tempel to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marvin Gaye record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord 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 rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
The American Breed,
Average White Band,
Alison Limerick,
Nik Kershaw,
Josef K,
The Music Machine,
Parry Music,
Cameo,
The Happenings,
Flipper,
ABBA,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Victims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Shoche,
PIL,
Slave,
Eli Mardock,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
John Lydon,
Niagra,
Graham Central Station,
The Velvet Underground,
Jeff Mills,
Maurizio,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Radio Birdman,
Infiniti,
Warsaw,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Ponytail,
The Sonics,
The Flesh Eaters,
Maleditus Sound,
Freddie Wadling,
The Techniques,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Throbbing Gristle,
Moebius,
Aural Exciters,
The Gladiators,
Todd Rundgren,
Faust,
The Trojans,
Can,
Crime,
James Chance & The Contortions,
the Bar-Kays,
Davy DMX,
Roger Hodgson,
Yellowson,
Ice-T,
The Mojo Men,
Sister Nancy,
Pierre Henry,
Ralphi Rosario,
Gregory Isaacs,
Public Image Ltd.,
Judy Mowatt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.