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 Gambia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 China Crisis to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All The Knickerbockers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves 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,
Ohio Players,
The Techniques,
DJ Style,
Soulsonic Force,
Lungfish,
Nico,
The Young Rascals,
Bobby Byrd,
Tim Buckley,
The Evens,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Zeros,
Rotary Connection,
Donald Byrd,
Charles Mingus,
Camberwell Now,
Brand Nubian,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Grey Daturas,
The Moleskins,
UT,
Ornette Coleman,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Moon,
Kenny Larkin,
Erasure,
Adolescents,
Aaron Thompson,
Rapeman,
Pet Shop Boys,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Motions,
Robert Görl,
Scientists,
Scratch Acid,
Suburban Knight,
The Angels of Light,
Black Pus,
Zapp,
Television,
Royal Trux,
Basic Channel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Big Daddy Kane,
Wings,
Chrome,
Depeche Mode,
Youth Brigade,
Erykah Badu,
The Count Five,
Sugar Minott,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Aswad,
Inner City,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Barbara Tucker,
Eric Copeland,
The New Christs,
Warren Ellis,
Altered Images,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Nik Kershaw,
The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps, The Cramps.
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.