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 Slovenia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Harmonia to the dance 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro 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 guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Loose Ends,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Joe Finger,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Scion,
The Divine Comedy,
Joey Negro,
Gregory Isaacs,
Zero Boys,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Move,
Rekid,
Chris & Cosey,
The Fall,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Real Kids,
Stereo Dub,
Delta 5,
Trumans Water,
The Durutti Column,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Blossom Toes,
Hot Snakes,
Scratch Acid,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lou Christie,
Howard Jones,
Rotary Connection,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Public Enemy,
The Angels of Light,
The Motions,
Marcia Griffiths,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
DNA,
Roger Hodgson,
The Tremeloes,
Warren Ellis,
Mark Hollis,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Normal,
Connie Case,
Bronski Beat,
Godley & Creme,
Minnie Riperton,
The Mojo Men,
Rites of Spring,
R.M.O.,
Gichy Dan,
Eric Dolphy,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Marmalade,
John Holt,
The Standells,
Bauhaus,
Pagans,
Stockholm Monsters,
Magazine, Magazine, Magazine, Magazine.
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.