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 Mauritania and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 Halifax and Tehran.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fear to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jacob Miller record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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,
Fear,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Raincoats,
Skarface,
Essential Logic,
Organ,
Kurtis Blow,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Barbara Tucker,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Selecter,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Freddie Wadling,
Amazonics,
The Fire Engines,
Eve St. Jones,
The Fuzztones,
Pole,
DJ Sneak,
Isaac Hayes,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Red Krayola,
Mantronix,
The Cramps,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Music Machine,
Lightning Bolt,
The Names,
Loose Ends,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pharoah Sanders,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Agitation Free,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Josef K,
Desert Stars,
Youth Brigade,
the Bar-Kays,
Bluetip,
T. Rex,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bad Manners,
Bobby Womack,
Andrew Hill,
Icehouse,
Juan Atkins,
Crime,
Bob Dylan,
Reagan Youth,
The Stooges,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Camberwell Now,
Eric Dolphy,
Oblivians,
Erasure,
DJ Style,
Theoretical Girls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
E-Dancer,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.