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 Gabon and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 clarinet 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 Ultimate Spinach to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Knickerbockers. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kurtis Blow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David McCallum record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Spandau Ballet,
L. Decosne,
Arcadia,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Connie Case,
Smog,
Panda Bear,
Vladislav Delay,
Metal Thangz,
Steve Hackett,
Maurizio,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
LL Cool J,
Subhumans,
T. Rex,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Monochrome Set,
Yazoo,
The Mummies,
The Kinks,
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Black Sheep,
Wire,
Joy Division,
Roy Ayers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dennis Brown,
Newcleus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Curtis Mayfield,
Circle Jerks,
Animal Collective,
Average White Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Con Funk Shun,
Ken Boothe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Byrd,
Gang Green,
Dual Sessions,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Johnny Clarke,
EPMD,
The Music Machine,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lou Christie,
Scan 7,
Lyres,
The American Breed,
Kerrie Biddell,
Funkadelic,
Lakeside,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Seeds,
Max Romeo,
Radiohead,
Bizarre Inc.,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.