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 Jordan and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Grey Daturas to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swell Maps record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Iggy Pop,
Monolake,
The Names,
Colin Newman,
Aswad,
Hoover,
Accadde A,
Khruangbin,
Scott Walker,
Essential Logic,
Derrick May,
Magazine,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Red Krayola,
Slick Rick,
The Remains,
ABBA,
Inner City,
Lakeside,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Charles Mingus,
Talk Talk,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kayak,
The Busters,
Sixth Finger,
The Fuzztones,
The Pop Group,
Los Fastidios,
Little Man,
Matthew Halsall,
Funky Four + One,
Moebius,
Bill Wells,
Anakelly,
The Dave Clark Five,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Skriet,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Von Mondo,
10cc,
Warsaw,
The Sonics,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gun Club,
Nils Olav,
The Gap Band,
Quantec,
The Seeds,
Lou Christie,
Ice-T,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Litter,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cameo,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.