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 Morocco and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 K-Klass to the dance 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All The Music Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bang On A Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Mad Mike,
Michelle Simonal,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eric Copeland,
Average White Band,
kango's stein massive,
A Certain Ratio,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Talk Talk,
Sällskapet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Archie Shepp,
Maleditus Sound,
The Misunderstood,
Scientists,
Swell Maps,
Boredoms,
Roy Ayers,
Sparks,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Monochrome Set,
Khruangbin,
Gerry Rafferty,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barrington Levy,
The Electric Prunes,
Motorama,
Dennis Brown,
Amon Düül II,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Oneida,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
X-102,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gang of Four,
The Smoke,
Joe Finger,
Parry Music,
Tomorrow,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Fela Kuti,
Sight & Sound,
Mission of Burma,
Gang Green,
Second Layer,
Bad Manners,
Deakin,
Theoretical Girls,
Godley & Creme,
The Cowsills,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
Black Flag,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gil Scott Heron,
Moss Icon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Eddi Front,
Ituana,
Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano, Chris Corsano.
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.