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 Brunei and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the güiro 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultravox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
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,
Ultravox,
Vladislav Delay,
Terry Callier,
Essential Logic,
8 Eyed Spy,
Angry Samoans,
Crooked Eye,
John Cale,
Echospace,
Blossom Toes,
Procol Harum,
The Saints,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Zeros,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Trumans Water,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Country Teasers,
Judy Mowatt,
Soft Machine,
Brass Construction,
Scratch Acid,
Desert Stars,
Lightning Bolt,
Funkadelic,
The Beau Brummels,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Derrick Morgan,
John Lydon,
The Happenings,
Symarip,
Electric Prunes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lower 48,
Dark Day,
Grauzone,
Depeche Mode,
Excepter,
Camberwell Now,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Darondo,
Yazoo,
Can,
Chris Corsano,
Bill Wells,
Rites of Spring,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Moleskins,
Lou Christie,
Kas Product,
Bill Near,
Kaleidoscope,
JFA,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Clear Light,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Roger Hodgson,
Fad Gadget,
Skriet,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.