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 Chile and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Main Source to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Niagra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Chris Corsano record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soft Cell,
Skriet,
Yazoo,
June of 44,
Althea and Donna,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
H. Thieme,
Kurtis Blow,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Busters,
Sarah Menescal,
Fluxion,
Dave Gahan,
Suburban Knight,
Bronski Beat,
One Last Wish,
Brand Nubian,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Chris & Cosey,
Pole,
Severed Heads,
The Litter,
Barry Ungar,
Malaria!,
Johnny Clarke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
Moss Icon,
Jeff Mills,
Isaac Hayes,
Quadrant,
Kayak,
The Mojo Men,
Jeff Lynne,
Wire,
The Last Poets,
David McCallum,
Pantytec,
Y Pants,
Fat Boys,
The Seeds,
MC5,
X-101,
The Gun Club,
Tears for Fears,
DJ Sneak,
Technova,
Ossler,
Colin Newman,
Arthur Verocai,
Essential Logic,
Shuggie Otis,
Average White Band,
Au Pairs,
Fear,
the Human League,
Shoche,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.