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 Iceland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Bremen.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the jazz 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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Harpers Bizarre record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a guitar 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 chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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 Grass Roots,
Roger Hodgson,
Amon Düül,
The United States of America,
Section 25,
Ossler,
John Foxx,
Wally Richardson,
Young Marble Giants,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Velvet Underground,
Unrelated Segments,
H. Thieme,
Letta Mbulu,
Kas Product,
Joensuu 1685,
Michelle Simonal,
Iggy Pop,
The Vogues,
The Durutti Column,
The Litter,
Half Japanese,
Eric Dolphy,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Walker Brothers,
Radiohead,
Ash Ra Tempel,
AZ,
Anakelly,
MC5,
Hoover,
Hardrive,
The Dave Clark Five,
Todd Terry,
Lou Reed,
Sonic Youth,
Swell Maps,
DJ Sneak,
Derrick Morgan,
Eli Mardock,
Q and Not U,
Stetsasonic,
Grey Daturas,
New Order,
John Coltrane,
Easy Going,
Royal Trux,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Erasure,
Desert Stars,
Livin' Joy,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Procol Harum,
The Skatalites,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Main Source,
Excepter,
Sister Nancy,
Eddi Front,
Barbara Tucker,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.