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 Norway and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Stockholm.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Isaac Hayes 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Surgeon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Half Japanese record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
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,
D'Angelo,
Skriet,
the Slits,
Deadbeat,
Johnny Clarke,
These Immortal Souls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Robert Görl,
The Misunderstood,
The Shadows of Knight,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Young Marble Giants,
Jeff Lynne,
Clear Light,
The Dirtbombs,
Sparks,
Arab on Radar,
Black Pus,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lakeside,
Ronan,
Darondo,
The Trojans,
Brick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Arcadia,
Byron Stingily,
The Blackbyrds,
R.M.O.,
Bang On A Can,
Ludus,
Stetsasonic,
The Doors,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Junior Murvin,
Traffic Nightmare,
Peter and Kerry,
The Kinks,
Kerri Chandler,
The Detroit Cobras,
10cc,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Wake,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Idris Muhammad,
Alice Coltrane,
Country Teasers,
Infiniti,
Con Funk Shun,
Section 25,
Crispy Ambulance,
Blossom Toes,
Boredoms,
David McCallum,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Letta Mbulu,
Erasure,
Fear,
Supertramp,
Alton Ellis,
Andrew Hill,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.