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 Luxembourg and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the rock 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 Mark Hollis. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lafayette Afro Rock Band 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord 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 snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Alton Ellis,
Electric Prunes,
Warren Ellis,
Idris Muhammad,
Robert Görl,
Das Ding,
Franke,
The Motions,
MDC,
Hardrive,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gladiators,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
David McCallum,
Half Japanese,
Jacques Brel,
Pharoah Sanders,
EPMD,
The Grass Roots,
Flamin' Groovies,
Organ,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Symarip,
The Fuzztones,
The Saints,
Minor Threat,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flash Fearless,
Hot Snakes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
PIL,
Bobby Sherman,
Henry Cow,
Derrick May,
Ultimate Spinach,
Alison Limerick,
The Gun Club,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Lungfish,
The Star Department,
Joy Division,
L. Decosne,
OOIOO,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gang Gang Dance,
Average White Band,
Soft Cell,
Nico,
David Axelrod,
In Retrospect,
Sight & Sound,
The Gap Band,
Q and Not U,
Talk Talk,
U.S. Maple,
The Slits,
Scion,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.