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 Turkey and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 It's A Beautiful Day to the rock 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nation of Ulysses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
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,
Average White Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
Byron Stingily,
Swell Maps,
Franke,
Rosa Yemen,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Knickerbockers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gang Gang Dance,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Don Cherry,
Chrome,
Severed Heads,
Scion,
Pulsallama,
The Last Poets,
One Last Wish,
Alphaville,
Dorothy Ashby,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Amazonics,
The Count Five,
Malaria!,
Nas,
Bush Tetras,
Nik Kershaw,
Bill Near,
8 Eyed Spy,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fall,
Amon Düül II,
The Fuzztones,
The Kinks,
Groovy Waters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Jeff Lynne,
The New Christs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Davy DMX,
Ornette Coleman,
Kool Moe Dee,
Monolake,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Drexciya,
Glenn Branca,
Eden Ahbez,
Dark Day,
the Human League,
Icehouse,
Aural Exciters,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Audionom,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bronski Beat,
Mark Hollis,
H. Thieme,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.