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 Philippines and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Madrid.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the oboe 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the grunge 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All The Litter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Doors,
Dual Sessions,
CMW,
The Angels of Light,
Joyce Sims,
Althea and Donna,
Pantytec,
E-Dancer,
Deepchord,
The Searchers,
Lou Reed,
The Blues Magoos,
The Sonics,
The Associates,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Camberwell Now,
Blake Baxter,
June Days,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soulsonic Force,
Sound Behaviour,
Piero Umiliani,
Shoche,
Charles Mingus,
David Axelrod,
X-102,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tropical Tobacco,
Leonard Cohen,
Glenn Branca,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sugar Minott,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Nirvana,
Laurel Aitken,
Supertramp,
Ultravox,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Hot Snakes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
In Retrospect,
FM Einheit,
The Standells,
The Motions,
Robert Hood,
Tubeway Army,
The Gories,
The Happenings,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Human League,
Can,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Offenders,
Jimmy McGriff,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pharoah Sanders,
T.S.O.L.,
The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps.
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.