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 Marshall Islands and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Marmalade to the electroclash 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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New York Dolls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum 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 synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Echospace,
Lyres,
The Buckinghams,
The Invisible,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ultimate Spinach,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
MC5,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Minnie Riperton,
The Modern Lovers,
The Move,
Albert Ayler,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Icehouse,
Intrusion,
Graham Central Station,
Bobby Byrd,
Fat Boys,
Moss Icon,
Tropical Tobacco,
Barry Ungar,
Infiniti,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Dawn Penn,
Trumans Water,
Erasure,
Leonard Cohen,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mars,
Suicide,
Glambeats Corp.,
Morten Harket,
Marcia Griffiths,
Moby Grape,
Johnny Osbourne,
Man Eating Sloth,
Pantaleimon,
Amon Düül II,
Joe Finger,
The Neon Judgement,
The Smiths,
Black Bananas,
Tommy Roe,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
David Axelrod,
The Monochrome Set,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Soulsonic Force,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Wally Richardson,
Porter Ricks,
Gastr Del Sol,
Subhumans,
The Music Machine,
The Count Five,
Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.
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.