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 Belgium and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Con Funk Shun. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe 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 mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
The Happenings,
Peter and Kerry,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lalo Schifrin,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Joy Division,
Alphaville,
Black Pus,
Roger Hodgson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Neil Young,
Jandek,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Blues Magoos,
Urselle,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
MDC,
Soul Sonic Force,
John Lydon,
The Gladiators,
The Velvet Underground,
R.M.O.,
Essential Logic,
Moby Grape,
Aaron Thompson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
T. Rex,
The Modern Lovers,
B.T. Express,
Goldenarms,
Franke,
Scientists,
Fugazi,
Kaleidoscope,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Unrelated Segments,
Sällskapet,
Boredoms,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Second Layer,
Tubeway Army,
World's Most,
Tears for Fears,
Duran Duran,
Grauzone,
Underground Resistance,
Wire,
The Saints,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Quantec,
The Moleskins,
Stockholm Monsters,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart, Al Stewart.
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.