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 Canada and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bootsy Collins to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Modern Lovers. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
London Community Gospel Choir,
John Foxx,
FM Einheit,
Harmonia,
Average White Band,
Altered Images,
The Mummies,
kango's stein massive,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Vogues,
Second Layer,
Donny Hathaway,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Al Stewart,
Barbara Tucker,
Drive Like Jehu,
Electric Prunes,
In Retrospect,
Matthew Bourne,
Grey Daturas,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Darondo,
Scan 7,
The Real Kids,
U.S. Maple,
The Flesh Eaters,
Skriet,
Urselle,
Fatback Band,
Crooked Eye,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Morten Harket,
Rhythm & Sound,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Happenings,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The American Breed,
Stockholm Monsters,
LL Cool J,
The Detroit Cobras,
Easy Going,
Gil Scott Heron,
Agent Orange,
John Cale,
Cluster,
Arthur Verocai,
Pantytec,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Todd Rundgren,
Connie Case,
Warren Ellis,
Talk Talk,
Flipper,
The New Christs,
Spandau Ballet,
Moss Icon,
The Remains,
Danielle Patucci,
Ornette Coleman,
The Walker Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.