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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The New Christs to the dance 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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Bad Manners tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Guru Guru record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 snare and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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,
Darondo,
Sandy B,
The Index,
Joey Negro,
The Barracudas,
Television,
Bobby Sherman,
Marine Girls,
LL Cool J,
Young Marble Giants,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Velvet Underground,
JFA,
Iggy Pop,
La Düsseldorf,
Stetsasonic,
Soft Machine,
The Last Poets,
Massinfluence,
T.S.O.L.,
Aaron Thompson,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joensuu 1685,
The Modern Lovers,
Saccharine Trust,
Alison Limerick,
The Litter,
The Five Americans,
Stereo Dub,
The Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
The Kinks,
Camberwell Now,
Dead Boys,
Byron Stingily,
Silicon Teens,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Neon Judgement,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Buckinghams,
Gang Gang Dance,
Fatback Band,
This Heat,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Fluxion,
Rekid,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Angels of Light,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Albert Ayler,
Pantytec,
Throbbing Gristle,
Kayak,
cv313,
Mo-Dettes,
Groovy Waters,
Oneida,
Fort Wilson Riot,
X-Ray Spex,
kango's stein massive,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.