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 Costa Rica and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the rhodes 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 The Chocolate Watch Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord 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 rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dorothy Ashby,
Godley & Creme,
Moss Icon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
X-102,
Erasure,
Cymande,
Joy Division,
Idris Muhammad,
Albert Ayler,
DNA,
Peter & Gordon,
Vainqueur,
Scrapy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Girls At Our Best!,
Arcadia,
Pet Shop Boys,
Agitation Free,
Harry Pussy,
Sparks,
The Golliwogs,
H. Thieme,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Evens,
Minor Threat,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Amazonics,
Cluster,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Archie Shepp,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cecil Taylor,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Supertramp,
Alice Coltrane,
Graham Central Station,
Sex Pistols,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Smog,
Tomorrow,
Quadrant,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
R.M.O.,
D'Angelo,
Radio Birdman,
Pulsallama,
Babytalk,
Donny Hathaway,
Matthew Halsall,
Yazoo,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Chris & Cosey,
DJ Sneak,
The Modern Lovers,
Eli Mardock,
Henry Cow,
The Zeros,
Fear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice, The Black Dice.
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.