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 Denmark and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Drive Like Jehu to the dance 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 Matthew Bourne. All the underground hits.
All Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb 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 synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marine Girls,
Eve St. Jones,
Lindisfarne,
Ash Ra Tempel,
John Lydon,
The Fortunes,
Alison Limerick,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
H. Thieme,
Fear,
Yellowson,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Magma,
Pharoah Sanders,
KRS-One,
Delon & Dalcan,
Interpol,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ronnie Foster,
Wasted Youth,
In Retrospect,
Dennis Brown,
UT,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Electric Prunes,
Television Personalities,
The American Breed,
Joy Division,
Terrestrial Tones,
Donald Byrd,
Index,
Liliput,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Derrick May,
Black Sheep,
Saccharine Trust,
Moby Grape,
Ultimate Spinach,
Main Source,
John Foxx,
Joyce Sims,
Half Japanese,
Arcadia,
Babytalk,
Slave,
X-Ray Spex,
Excepter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marmalade,
OOIOO,
Erykah Badu,
Spoonie Gee,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Victims,
Q and Not U,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scan 7,
the Slits,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.