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 Serbia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Barrington Levy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Five Americans. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a theremin 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 mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mummies,
The Last Poets,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter & Gordon,
Robert Wyatt,
KRS-One,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Pop Group,
Television,
Procol Harum,
Subhumans,
Pantytec,
Ultravox,
Ituana,
Radio Birdman,
Country Teasers,
Hardrive,
The Stooges,
LL Cool J,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Anthony Braxton,
Buzzcocks,
D'Angelo,
Godley & Creme,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Prince Buster,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bob Dylan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
UT,
The Young Rascals,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deadbeat,
Joe Smooth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Skarface,
Wings,
Flipper,
Patti Smith,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Metal Thangz,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Technova,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Tim Buckley,
Youth Brigade,
The Evens,
Lucky Dragons,
Scientists,
The Happenings,
The Zeros,
Althea and Donna,
B.T. Express,
The Litter,
Scion,
Ornette Coleman,
Guru Guru,
Porter Ricks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.