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 Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Connie Case to the crunk 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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
The Associates,
Pulsallama,
Delta 5,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Silicon Teens,
Average White Band,
Q and Not U,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Warsaw,
Gang Green,
Index,
The Invisible,
Little Man,
Underground Resistance,
Minor Threat,
Letta Mbulu,
Graham Central Station,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Negative Approach,
Theoretical Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Bob Dylan,
Grey Daturas,
Danielle Patucci,
Aural Exciters,
Pet Shop Boys,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Alice Coltrane,
David McCallum,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cramps,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bizarre Inc.,
Bobby Byrd,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eden Ahbez,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
X-101,
The Dead C,
UT,
The Remains,
Audionom,
Mark Hollis,
Von Mondo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Alison Limerick,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Eric Copeland,
Prince Buster,
Wally Richardson,
Popol Vuh,
Ohio Players,
The Cowsills,
The Tremeloes,
Au Pairs,
Skaos,
Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!, Girls At Our Best!.
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.