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 Bhutan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Scrapy to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer 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 organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The United States of America,
Reuben Wilson,
The Fall,
The Knickerbockers,
Zero Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
Animal Collective,
The Blackbyrds,
Gang Gang Dance,
Rod Modell,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Derrick May,
The Gories,
Anakelly,
Cameo,
Sex Pistols,
Sarah Menescal,
Warsaw,
The Star Department,
Roxette,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Talk Talk,
Harmonia,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
James White and The Blacks,
Tears for Fears,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The New Christs,
Joensuu 1685,
Dual Sessions,
Ituana,
Bill Near,
The Searchers,
The Walker Brothers,
Rosa Yemen,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Residents,
Nick Fraelich,
Nas,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
World's Most,
Flipper,
X-101,
PIL,
Aswad,
Alton Ellis,
Lalann,
Eric B and Rakim,
Icehouse,
Surgeon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Funkadelic,
The Martian,
Tubeway Army,
The Young Rascals,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Nik Kershaw,
Visage,
Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D, Schoolly D.
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.