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 Solomon Islands and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 FM Einheit to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ituana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator 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 a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Order,
Dave Gahan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Avey Tare,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Parry Music,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jimmy McGriff,
Boredoms,
Mandrill,
Yusef Lateef,
Bobby Byrd,
Kaleidoscope,
Suicide,
Ultra Naté,
Dawn Penn,
Brass Construction,
Easy Going,
Negative Approach,
Chris & Cosey,
The American Breed,
Sonny Sharrock,
Khruangbin,
AZ,
Eve St. Jones,
Cal Tjader,
LL Cool J,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Dead C,
Wasted Youth,
The Five Americans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Man Parrish,
The Shadows of Knight,
Terrestrial Tones,
Little Man,
Glambeats Corp.,
Funky Four + One,
Crime,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eli Mardock,
Amazonics,
Flipper,
The Sonics,
Quantec,
Man Eating Sloth,
Unwound,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bobby Sherman,
Niagra,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sun Ra,
Peter & Gordon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Warren Ellis,
Whodini,
The Electric Prunes,
Mad Mike,
Mark Hollis,
Iggy Pop,
Skarface,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.