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 Palau and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Trojans to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ice-T record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro 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 mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
Ultra Naté,
Ralphi Rosario,
The United States of America,
Grandmaster Flash,
A Certain Ratio,
Easy Going,
Rod Modell,
Tres Demented,
Ultimate Spinach,
Drive Like Jehu,
The J.B.'s,
Michelle Simonal,
Youth Brigade,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Happenings,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Warren Ellis,
Amon Düül II,
Bobby Sherman,
LL Cool J,
Fluxion,
Quadrant,
The Music Machine,
The Remains,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Offenders,
Blossom Toes,
The Busters,
Jerry's Kids,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stockholm Monsters,
Aural Exciters,
Flipper,
The Fugs,
Robert Görl,
The Dave Clark Five,
Soulsonic Force,
Soft Machine,
The Black Dice,
Subhumans,
Young Marble Giants,
Monks,
Con Funk Shun,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Tropical Tobacco,
X-Ray Spex,
Reuben Wilson,
Quando Quango,
Niagra,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
John Foxx,
Clear Light,
Danielle Patucci,
The Human League,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.