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 Nauru and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft to the grime 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 Nas. All the underground hits.
All Ituana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Birthday Party record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
These Immortal Souls,
Banda Bassotti,
Black Sheep,
The Dave Clark Five,
the Soft Cell,
Skarface,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Unrelated Segments,
Sällskapet,
Nirvana,
Blake Baxter,
Danielle Patucci,
Simply Red,
China Crisis,
Eric Copeland,
Wire,
The Associates,
Tim Buckley,
Monolake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Groovy Waters,
Magma,
Hot Snakes,
Crash Course in Science,
The Modern Lovers,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Little Man,
Moby Grape,
Janne Schatter,
Avey Tare,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lou Christie,
Spandau Ballet,
Rapeman,
The Mojo Men,
Reagan Youth,
Funky Four + One,
The Beau Brummels,
The J.B.'s,
Interpol,
Ossler,
B.T. Express,
The Move,
Joensuu 1685,
Agitation Free,
Carl Craig,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Maleditus Sound,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Michelle Simonal,
The Knickerbockers,
Grauzone,
Chris Corsano,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joe Finger,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Intrusion,
Johnny Clarke,
Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.
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.