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 Croatia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Johnny Osbourne to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All Iggy Pop tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet 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 organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Zapp,
Soft Machine,
Josef K,
The Grass Roots,
Shuggie Otis,
John Holt,
Thee Headcoats,
The Stooges,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Dorothy Ashby,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Althea and Donna,
Liliput,
Man Parrish,
a-ha,
Cluster,
Carl Craig,
Thompson Twins,
Ten City,
Groovy Waters,
The Neon Judgement,
Aural Exciters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Tremeloes,
Lindisfarne,
Boredoms,
Accadde A,
Gabor Szabo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Big Daddy Kane,
Fugazi,
Connie Case,
The Offenders,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Amon Düül II,
China Crisis,
Camouflage,
The Raincoats,
The Angels of Light,
Aaron Thompson,
Vladislav Delay,
Black Moon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Icehouse,
Terry Callier,
Anakelly,
Tim Buckley,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mission of Burma,
Y Pants,
Quando Quango,
Heaven 17,
Q65,
Davy DMX,
Boz Scaggs,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tubeway Army,
cv313,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.