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 Guyana and from Paris.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Harmonia 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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin 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 theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Judy Mowatt,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Second Layer,
Wally Richardson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Human League,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mantronix,
Nik Kershaw,
Popol Vuh,
Eden Ahbez,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rufus Thomas,
Joy Division,
Lebanon Hanover,
Jimmy McGriff,
Youth Brigade,
Jacques Brel,
T.S.O.L.,
The Evens,
Yusef Lateef,
L. Decosne,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Robert Hood,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fugs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Chris & Cosey,
David Bowie,
ABC,
Grauzone,
Brothers Johnson,
cv313,
Bootsy Collins,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
John Lydon,
Essential Logic,
MC5,
Scott Walker,
Mad Mike,
Tim Buckley,
AZ,
Pylon,
Dead Boys,
Alison Limerick,
Slick Rick,
Stiv Bators,
Severed Heads,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Kerrie Biddell,
Basic Channel,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Gap Band,
The Martian,
The Black Dice,
E-Dancer,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.