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 Iceland and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Excepter to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
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,
The Mojo Men,
The Raincoats,
The Standells,
Rhythm & Sound,
Idris Muhammad,
The Fugs,
FM Einheit,
MC5,
Pierre Henry,
Terrestrial Tones,
Bill Wells,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Marc Almond,
Jeff Mills,
Eyeless In Gaza,
E-Dancer,
The Happenings,
Minnie Riperton,
UT,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Nils Olav,
The Dirtbombs,
Rosa Yemen,
Babytalk,
Agitation Free,
Banda Bassotti,
Rites of Spring,
The New Christs,
Archie Shepp,
Joy Division,
Blossom Toes,
Freddie Wadling,
Tom Boy,
Siglo XX,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Albert Ayler,
Skarface,
Suburban Knight,
This Heat,
The Electric Prunes,
Cymande,
A Certain Ratio,
Liliput,
Brass Construction,
48th St. Collective,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Marcia Griffiths,
Shoche,
R.M.O.,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dead C,
Wolf Eyes,
The Slackers,
Royal Trux,
Nirvana,
Agent Orange,
Aural Exciters,
B.T. Express,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.