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 India and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the sitar 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 Y Pants 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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Basic Channel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
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,
Rufus Thomas,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Groovy Waters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Livin' Joy,
Black Flag,
Second Layer,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jeff Mills,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Youth Brigade,
Heaven 17,
Fluxion,
The Black Dice,
the Swans,
Camberwell Now,
Television Personalities,
Marvin Gaye,
Boogie Down Productions,
Cheater Slicks,
Joyce Sims,
Mandrill,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Anakelly,
E-Dancer,
Avey Tare,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Donald Byrd,
The Beau Brummels,
Rosa Yemen,
Max Romeo,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Tim Buckley,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deepchord,
Eric Copeland,
The Star Department,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mission of Burma,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Delta 5,
Ultimate Spinach,
Ice-T,
Man Eating Sloth,
Young Marble Giants,
Lee Hazlewood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Cabaret Voltaire,
John Foxx,
Sugar Minott,
Massinfluence,
Wasted Youth,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Von Mondo,
Gang Gang Dance,
John Holt,
Popol Vuh,
Fat Boys,
Eric Dolphy,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.