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 Switzerland and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Litter to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 cv313. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron 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 oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Slave,
The Shadows of Knight,
Accadde A,
Cluster,
Eddi Front,
Swell Maps,
The Motions,
Toni Rubio,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rotary Connection,
Ossler,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Connie Case,
Alice Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Prince Buster,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
Tom Boy,
the Swans,
Ronan,
The Cramps,
Y Pants,
Banda Bassotti,
Section 25,
Charles Mingus,
Sister Nancy,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Red Krayola,
The New Christs,
Bootsy Collins,
Ash Ra Tempel,
These Immortal Souls,
Wire,
Hoover,
Andrew Hill,
Nils Olav,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacques Brel,
Soul II Soul,
Arab on Radar,
Pantaleimon,
Mr. Review,
Pole,
Khruangbin,
Rod Modell,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sixth Finger,
Chris Corsano,
Patti Smith,
Black Moon,
Ronnie Foster,
Flash Fearless,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Index,
Rosa Yemen,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.