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 Germany and from Lagos.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Godley & Creme. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Section 25 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Erasure,
Black Sheep,
Crash Course in Science,
DNA,
Camouflage,
Cymande,
Joyce Sims,
OOIOO,
Mr. Review,
Crooked Eye,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Fluxion,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Harmonia,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Litter,
Second Layer,
Josef K,
The Kinks,
Dead Boys,
Lyres,
Moebius,
Anthony Braxton,
World's Most,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Soft Machine,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jandek,
Pantytec,
Soulsonic Force,
MDC,
The Gladiators,
Kerri Chandler,
Ossler,
The Star Department,
Ten City,
The Fugs,
Animal Collective,
Brick,
Nik Kershaw,
Alison Limerick,
Con Funk Shun,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jimmy McGriff,
Deakin,
Inner City,
The Real Kids,
Gang Green,
Kenny Larkin,
Pulsallama,
Icehouse,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
Minor Threat,
Negative Approach,
D'Angelo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scott Walker,
10cc,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mo-Dettes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.