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 Denmark and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lou Christie to the disco 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
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,
Fluxion,
Essential Logic,
Terry Callier,
Tears for Fears,
Rakim,
EPMD,
Country Teasers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Y Pants,
Brand Nubian,
Blancmange,
Tubeway Army,
The Music Machine,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Marmalade,
Jeff Lynne,
Sixth Finger,
Maurizio,
The Residents,
LL Cool J,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Johnny Clarke,
Bronski Beat,
The Slits,
Roger Hodgson,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Arthur Verocai,
Quantec,
Unwound,
X-101,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Marc Almond,
The Young Rascals,
Cecil Taylor,
Rosa Yemen,
Ten City,
The Remains,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Althea and Donna,
Adolescents,
Glambeats Corp.,
Minutemen,
Arab on Radar,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Eli Mardock,
Fear,
New Order,
The Skatalites,
Jacques Brel,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Green,
Matthew Bourne,
Morten Harket,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Throbbing Gristle,
Agitation Free,
The Velvet Underground,
48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective, 48th St. Collective.
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.