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 Mauritius and from Accra.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Soul II Soul to the grunge 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
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,
David Bowie,
Gang of Four,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Echospace,
Lalann,
David McCallum,
Tom Boy,
The Busters,
John Holt,
The Names,
John Foxx,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Fania All-Stars,
Isaac Hayes,
John Coltrane,
The Techniques,
Khruangbin,
These Immortal Souls,
Moby Grape,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic,
Negative Approach,
AZ,
Gong,
Smog,
Mo-Dettes,
Second Layer,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Hoover,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Remains,
Joe Finger,
Bauhaus,
Unrelated Segments,
Mission of Burma,
Mark Hollis,
The Velvet Underground,
Amon Düül,
The Vogues,
Kevin Saunderson,
Grey Daturas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
K-Klass,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Crooked Eye,
Nico,
Joensuu 1685,
Kas Product,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Harmonia,
Letta Mbulu,
The Pop Group,
The Dirtbombs,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fad Gadget,
Circle Jerks,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.