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 Vanuatu and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the guitar 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 Laurel Aitken to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Divine Comedy. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes 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 theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Drexciya,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Idris Muhammad,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Moody Blues,
Lungfish,
Urselle,
Sight & Sound,
Kaleidoscope,
Das Ding,
Matthew Bourne,
Television,
Anakelly,
Eli Mardock,
Altered Images,
Sarah Menescal,
The Litter,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Standells,
Davy DMX,
The Slackers,
Rosa Yemen,
Negative Approach,
Arthur Verocai,
The Remains,
Rotary Connection,
Albert Ayler,
the Human League,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Yusef Lateef,
The Divine Comedy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quando Quango,
The Knickerbockers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Fad Gadget,
Essential Logic,
The Fortunes,
DNA,
The Walker Brothers,
Index,
Jesper Dahlback,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Tropical Tobacco,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Avey Tare,
Metal Thangz,
Rod Modell,
Groovy Waters,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Fugs,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Barrington Levy,
Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills, Jeff Mills.
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.