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 Sweden and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jerry's Kids 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 Nils Olav. All the underground hits.
All Franke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes 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 mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
Rosa Yemen,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Desert Stars,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Dead C,
ABC,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Spandau Ballet,
Joyce Sims,
Dawn Penn,
The Martian,
Rakim,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Moebius,
Anakelly,
Minny Pops,
Scott Walker,
The Mojo Men,
Panda Bear,
The Modern Lovers,
Cluster,
Animal Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Mark Hollis,
F. McDonald,
Dave Gahan,
L. Decosne,
Boredoms,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Black Dice,
Au Pairs,
Gichy Dan,
Erykah Badu,
Shoche,
Average White Band,
Marine Girls,
Kurtis Blow,
The Skatalites,
OOIOO,
The American Breed,
The Trojans,
Pole,
Arab on Radar,
Boz Scaggs,
Thee Headcoats,
Eurythmics,
Jandek,
Second Layer,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Reuben Wilson,
Chrome,
Television,
Kerrie Biddell,
Danielle Patucci,
The Litter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Howard Jones,
Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses, Nation of Ulysses.
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.