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 Kenya and from Portland.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sonics to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba 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?
Wally Richardson,
John Coltrane,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Walker Brothers,
Lebanon Hanover,
F. McDonald,
Joe Finger,
Cabaret Voltaire,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang of Four,
New Age Steppers,
Marvin Gaye,
Public Image Ltd.,
Skriet,
The Black Dice,
Eve St. Jones,
Roy Ayers,
Black Flag,
Gang Green,
Harmonia,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eden Ahbez,
Metal Thangz,
Monolake,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Todd Rundgren,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
L. Decosne,
Soulsonic Force,
Steve Hackett,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Doobie Brothers,
the Sonics,
The Victims,
Toni Rubio,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Slave,
Skaos,
Boz Scaggs,
Crash Course in Science,
Mantronix,
Electric Prunes,
Severed Heads,
Skarface,
The Modern Lovers,
The Golliwogs,
Index,
Tomorrow,
Underground Resistance,
The Knickerbockers,
Spandau Ballet,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Interpol,
Derrick Morgan,
Lakeside,
Zapp,
Parry Music,
Sam Rivers,
Massinfluence,
X-101,
LL Cool J,
David McCallum,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.