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 Seychelles and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Porter Ricks to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
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,
Barry Ungar,
Warren Ellis,
Alton Ellis,
The Monochrome Set,
Lakeside,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Sound Behaviour,
Terrestrial Tones,
John Cale,
Eurythmics,
Ronnie Foster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Neon Judgement,
The Last Poets,
Ronan,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
ABBA,
Todd Terry,
Index,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Unrelated Segments,
Piero Umiliani,
Yazoo,
Basic Channel,
Flamin' Groovies,
Drive Like Jehu,
Lebanon Hanover,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Suburban Knight,
Pagans,
The Litter,
Amazonics,
The Fugs,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Slackers,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ohio Players,
Jeff Mills,
Sister Nancy,
Sonny Sharrock,
Tears for Fears,
Television,
EPMD,
These Immortal Souls,
Joensuu 1685,
China Crisis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Pylon,
Josef K,
Juan Atkins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Modern Lovers,
Amon Düül,
Babytalk,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Robert Hood,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Peter & Gordon,
Eric Dolphy,
The Cure,
Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.
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.