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 Indonesia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Model 500 to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chrome record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Residents,
Technova,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Trojans,
The Zeros,
Patti Smith,
Soul II Soul,
Goldenarms,
Freddie Wadling,
Josef K,
Faraquet,
Suicide,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Johnny Clarke,
Nils Olav,
Robert Hood,
The Evens,
Sonny Sharrock,
Warren Ellis,
Neil Young,
Sam Rivers,
Thompson Twins,
Prince Buster,
Electric Prunes,
Ultimate Spinach,
Reagan Youth,
Althea and Donna,
Visage,
Alice Coltrane,
The Smoke,
Scan 7,
Tubeway Army,
E-Dancer,
Altered Images,
X-102,
Bluetip,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
CMW,
New York Dolls,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Symarip,
The Moleskins,
Pussy Galore,
Alphaville,
Los Fastidios,
Mr. Review,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Yazoo,
Little Man,
Scion,
Clear Light,
The Slackers,
Theoretical Girls,
Soulsonic Force,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Monks,
Flash Fearless,
Dark Day,
Wasted Youth,
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring.
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.