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 New Zealand and from Cairo.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.
All Nirvana tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Idris Muhammad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
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,
MC5,
Khruangbin,
Unwound,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Jacques Brel,
Dennis Brown,
R.M.O.,
The Five Americans,
Tommy Roe,
The Wake,
Radiohead,
Panda Bear,
Babytalk,
The Misunderstood,
the Swans,
Hardrive,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Faust,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ludus,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Deadbeat,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
X-102,
The Sonics,
Michelle Simonal,
48th St. Collective,
Scratch Acid,
Japan,
The Cure,
Crime,
Livin' Joy,
Inner City,
The Doors,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
JFA,
Yusef Lateef,
Slave,
Motorama,
The Mummies,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lindisfarne,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Drive Like Jehu,
Angry Samoans,
Section 25,
Minny Pops,
Guru Guru,
H. Thieme,
Charles Mingus,
Ultravox,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Busters,
Bronski Beat,
Agitation Free,
Spoonie Gee,
Aloha Tigers,
Gregory Isaacs,
Moebius,
T. Rex,
The Move, The Move, The Move, The Move.
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.