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 Nicaragua and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Johnny Osbourne 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 Malaria!. All the underground hits.
All Teenage Jesus and the Jerks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
Joe Finger,
Gang Green,
Unrelated Segments,
Jandek,
the Soft Cell,
Bobby Byrd,
Kas Product,
Ohio Players,
Symarip,
Essential Logic,
Fad Gadget,
Mars,
Banda Bassotti,
Sun Ra,
Lalo Schifrin,
Con Funk Shun,
Mission of Burma,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Mr. Review,
Gang Starr,
Roy Ayers,
Brothers Johnson,
Cecil Taylor,
Groovy Waters,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Icehouse,
Eddi Front,
the Normal,
Kaleidoscope,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
China Crisis,
Loose Ends,
Masters at Work,
Junior Murvin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Ossler,
L. Decosne,
Second Layer,
Bootsy Collins,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Leonard Cohen,
Juan Atkins,
Babytalk,
Yusef Lateef,
Erykah Badu,
Joyce Sims,
Jacob Miller,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Maleditus Sound,
The Blackbyrds,
Marvin Gaye,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Morten Harket,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Panda Bear,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Surgeon,
Intrusion,
The Cure, The Cure, The Cure, The Cure.
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.