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 Gambia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 808 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 Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer 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 synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Tres Demented,
Pantaleimon,
Brand Nubian,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Cramps,
Cameo,
The Remains,
Desert Stars,
Gil Scott Heron,
La Düsseldorf,
Sound Behaviour,
Drexciya,
Excepter,
Popol Vuh,
The Kinks,
Cymande,
The American Breed,
Japan,
Jacob Miller,
The Dave Clark Five,
Depeche Mode,
Kayak,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rosa Yemen,
Moss Icon,
A Certain Ratio,
Minor Threat,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Qualms,
Ponytail,
the Human League,
The Real Kids,
Don Cherry,
Peter & Gordon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Shoche,
Todd Rundgren,
Kas Product,
The Monochrome Set,
Colin Newman,
Icehouse,
New York Dolls,
The Litter,
Dawn Penn,
Arab on Radar,
Charles Mingus,
Prince Buster,
Neu!,
Tim Buckley,
Lucky Dragons,
Dave Gahan,
Freddie Wadling,
The Associates,
Goldenarms,
Swans,
Fear,
Bad Manners,
Soulsonic Force,
Scion,
Schoolly D,
Hardrive,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.