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 Lagos.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fad Gadget to the funk 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes 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 rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott Heron,
Warren Ellis,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Kool Moe Dee,
Mandrill,
Visage,
Juan Atkins,
Patti Smith,
The Monochrome Set,
T.S.O.L.,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Slits,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Basic Channel,
The Buckinghams,
Khruangbin,
Maurizio,
Pylon,
Fear,
Hoover,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Aswad,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Marmalade,
The Martian,
Dorothy Ashby,
F. McDonald,
The Dead C,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Raincoats,
The Five Americans,
Rufus Thomas,
Anthony Braxton,
Scientists,
Country Teasers,
Radio Birdman,
Alton Ellis,
DJ Style,
The Sonics,
Intrusion,
Chrome,
Outsiders,
Suburban Knight,
Albert Ayler,
Bronski Beat,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Motions,
The American Breed,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joensuu 1685,
Flipper,
Eden Ahbez,
Deepchord,
Kevin Saunderson,
Babytalk,
Soft Machine,
The Saints,
Hasil Adkins,
This Heat,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.