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 Saudi Arabia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the organ 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. All the underground hits.
All Derrick Morgan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eve St. Jones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Godley & Creme,
The Moleskins,
One Last Wish,
Excepter,
U.S. Maple,
Arcadia,
Ralphi Rosario,
AZ,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Peter & Gordon,
The Victims,
Sight & Sound,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ludus,
Pussy Galore,
Motorama,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Hashim,
Ponytail,
Tim Buckley,
MDC,
Alison Limerick,
The Evens,
Zapp,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Section 25,
Buzzcocks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
OOIOO,
Ossler,
Hasil Adkins,
Matthew Halsall,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
New York Dolls,
Schoolly D,
Roger Hodgson,
R.M.O.,
The Gories,
Underground Resistance,
Iggy Pop,
Kurtis Blow,
Morten Harket,
Ultra Naté,
Deakin,
Sun City Girls,
Pere Ubu,
This Heat,
Moss Icon,
The Mojo Men,
Bizarre Inc.,
Glambeats Corp.,
Saccharine Trust,
Bluetip,
The Durutti Column,
Henry Cow,
Maurizio,
Slave,
The Buckinghams,
David McCallum,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Erasure,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.