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 Albania and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bizarre Inc. to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a clarinet 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 clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mary Jane Girls,
Delta 5,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
PIL,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Hardrive,
June Days,
Joensuu 1685,
The Invisible,
Cluster,
D'Angelo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jacob Miller,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Vladislav Delay,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Bang On A Can,
Throbbing Gristle,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Radiopuhelimet,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Royal Trux,
The Music Machine,
The Associates,
Stiv Bators,
Eli Mardock,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Avey Tare,
Moss Icon,
Franke,
Nation of Ulysses,
Livin' Joy,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Q65,
Sixth Finger,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Velvet Underground,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lyres,
The Cramps,
Marmalade,
Scrapy,
Inner City,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Young Rascals,
Alison Limerick,
Smog,
The Residents,
Trumans Water,
Ohio Players,
Aswad,
The Moody Blues,
Eric Copeland,
Lucky Dragons,
Scion,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Audionom,
Bluetip,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.