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 Lebanon and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Babytalk to the funk 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smoke record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
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,
Susan Cadogan,
Brick,
Junior Murvin,
Das Ding,
Con Funk Shun,
Tears for Fears,
Television Personalities,
Cal Tjader,
Pantytec,
The Count Five,
Marine Girls,
Skarface,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Glenn Branca,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Joe Finger,
Heaven 17,
B.T. Express,
Inner City,
Erasure,
World's Most,
Desert Stars,
R.M.O.,
Fear,
Harmonia,
Janne Schatter,
Max Romeo,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Aaron Thompson,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Scratch Acid,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Traffic Nightmare,
Von Mondo,
Jawbox,
Moby Grape,
Slave,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Barry Ungar,
Arab on Radar,
Parry Music,
Donny Hathaway,
The Motions,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Andrew Hill,
DJ Style,
T. Rex,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Stooges,
Dual Sessions,
Interpol,
Guru Guru,
Stereo Dub,
Soulsonic Force,
The Music Machine,
Arthur Verocai,
The Modern Lovers,
The Standells,
Dead Boys,
Spandau Ballet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.
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.