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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Livin' Joy to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet 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 harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
48th St. Collective,
Gil Scott Heron,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ralphi Rosario,
Isaac Hayes,
Porter Ricks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Swell Maps,
Second Layer,
Glambeats Corp.,
Drive Like Jehu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Swans,
The Move,
Colin Newman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Underground Resistance,
Adolescents,
The Dirtbombs,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Monochrome Set,
Lebanon Hanover,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Warsaw,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Pretty Things,
Radio Birdman,
Marmalade,
DNA,
Derrick May,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Pussy Galore,
The Offenders,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Donny Hathaway,
Popol Vuh,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bronski Beat,
PIL,
Radiohead,
Inner City,
Tropical Tobacco,
Marvin Gaye,
The Blackbyrds,
Deakin,
The Searchers,
Country Teasers,
Stiv Bators,
Rotary Connection,
Flipper,
Davy DMX,
Freddie Wadling,
Cheater Slicks,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.