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 Tunisia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Byron Stingily to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe 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 linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Chris Corsano,
Brand Nubian,
Joe Smooth,
Freddie Wadling,
The Saints,
The Monochrome Set,
Slick Rick,
Can,
Quando Quango,
Electric Prunes,
Kas Product,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Boogie Down Productions,
Easy Going,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ohio Players,
Excepter,
Franke,
Soul Sonic Force,
LL Cool J,
Panda Bear,
Max Romeo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Alarm Clocks,
Echospace,
Colin Newman,
The Busters,
Royal Trux,
The Gories,
The Golliwogs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Los Fastidios,
Joensuu 1685,
Sun City Girls,
CMW,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scott Walker,
Eddi Front,
Piero Umiliani,
Marmalade,
The Zeros,
The Raincoats,
Black Moon,
Stetsasonic,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jandek,
A Flock of Seagulls,
10cc,
Fear,
Surgeon,
Josef K,
Ponytail,
Nils Olav,
Pole,
Mark Hollis,
Mr. Review,
The Mojo Men,
Skarface,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.