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 Dominican Republic and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Stooges to the disco 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All H. Thieme tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joensuu 1685 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Max Romeo,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Toasters,
Eve St. Jones,
The Saints,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funkadelic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Raincoats,
B.T. Express,
48th St. Collective,
CMW,
Half Japanese,
Moss Icon,
Howard Jones,
Dawn Penn,
Swell Maps,
Black Sheep,
Ronnie Foster,
The Dead C,
Unrelated Segments,
Essential Logic,
Loose Ends,
Skarface,
Talk Talk,
OOIOO,
Cybotron,
Nico,
X-102,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Blues Magoos,
The Seeds,
Darondo,
The Evens,
The Victims,
Girls At Our Best!,
T.S.O.L.,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Star Department,
Bill Near,
John Coltrane,
Danielle Patucci,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Janne Schatter,
Idris Muhammad,
Junior Murvin,
Crispian St. Peters,
Pylon,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
K-Klass,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Kinks,
The Misunderstood,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Walker Brothers,
Minutemen,
D'Angelo,
Echospace,
John Foxx,
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.