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 Benin and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Oppenheimer Analysis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers Ubiquity 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doors,
John Cale,
Swell Maps,
Idris Muhammad,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Invisible,
Ultra Naté,
The Angels of Light,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Index,
Robert Wyatt,
Bang On A Can,
The Slackers,
Make Up,
Erasure,
Delta 5,
Main Source,
Con Funk Shun,
Franke,
Donald Byrd,
Funky Four + One,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lou Christie,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Mad Mike,
Danielle Patucci,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Albert Ayler,
The Neon Judgement,
The Pretty Things,
Deadbeat,
Davy DMX,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lyres,
Maleditus Sound,
Flash Fearless,
Animal Collective,
Big Daddy Kane,
Alice Coltrane,
The Gladiators,
Simply Red,
Cameo,
The Wake,
The Monks,
Boogie Down Productions,
Henry Cow,
Kaleidoscope,
Crispy Ambulance,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Velvet Underground,
Pharoah Sanders,
Letta Mbulu,
Barrington Levy,
World's Most,
8 Eyed Spy,
Iggy Pop,
The Fuzztones,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.