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 Ecuador and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Calgary.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Cramps 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 the Fania All-Stars. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
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,
Electric Prunes,
MC5,
Moby Grape,
Index,
Agitation Free,
This Heat,
The Cramps,
Monolake,
Smog,
a-ha,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rekid,
Y Pants,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Residents,
These Immortal Souls,
Rapeman,
The Misunderstood,
Josef K,
The Monochrome Set,
Hot Snakes,
Gang of Four,
Frankie Knuckles,
One Last Wish,
Faraquet,
the Human League,
Fluxion,
Connie Case,
Anthony Braxton,
Quadrant,
Eli Mardock,
Jeff Mills,
Youth Brigade,
The Sound,
Scion,
Johnny Clarke,
Deepchord,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Absolute Body Control,
Ituana,
Judy Mowatt,
The Blackbyrds,
The Remains,
Cal Tjader,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Newcleus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Danielle Patucci,
Minor Threat,
Jesper Dahlback,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Todd Terry,
The Electric Prunes,
T.S.O.L.,
Bobby Byrd,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Leonard Cohen,
Vainqueur,
Crispy Ambulance,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.