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 Uzbekistan and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gerry Rafferty to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Peter & Gordon. All the underground hits.
All Rufus Thomas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Chris Corsano,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scion,
Erykah Badu,
T. Rex,
Ornette Coleman,
Tommy Roe,
Little Man,
Dead Boys,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Unwound,
Matthew Bourne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Names,
The Fall,
June Days,
Fad Gadget,
Ossler,
The Pop Group,
Sex Pistols,
The Gap Band,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sexual Harrassment,
Todd Terry,
David Bowie,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gastr Del Sol,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ludus,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Babytalk,
Can,
Cheater Slicks,
Warren Ellis,
Godley & Creme,
Altered Images,
Joy Division,
John Holt,
Patti Smith,
China Crisis,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Qualms,
Laurel Aitken,
Lebanon Hanover,
Radiopuhelimet,
A Certain Ratio,
Desert Stars,
Y Pants,
Crispian St. Peters,
the Swans,
Gong,
Stockholm Monsters,
Main Source,
Jeru the Damaja,
Kurtis Blow,
Todd Rundgren,
Yaz,
Letta Mbulu,
The Fire Engines,
Nation of Ulysses,
New Order, New Order, New Order, New Order.
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.