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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Pole to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Fort Wilson Riot tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slackers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an arpeggiator.
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,
Shoche,
David Axelrod,
F. McDonald,
Minnie Riperton,
UT,
The Leaves,
Kerrie Biddell,
Dennis Brown,
Janne Schatter,
Masters at Work,
Royal Trux,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Laurel Aitken,
Joe Smooth,
Bronski Beat,
Zero Boys,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Mojo Men,
Stiv Bators,
Drive Like Jehu,
Rekid,
Gregory Isaacs,
Reagan Youth,
Crash Course in Science,
Glenn Branca,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Angels of Light,
John Cale,
Scientists,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pantaleimon,
cv313,
LL Cool J,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fat Boys,
The Slits,
Average White Band,
Robert Görl,
Soft Machine,
Urselle,
Bobby Womack,
Davy DMX,
The Seeds,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Moebius,
Half Japanese,
David McCallum,
Fad Gadget,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Eddi Front,
Judy Mowatt,
Amon Düül II,
Derrick May,
Bluetip,
R.M.O.,
Joe Finger,
Pulsallama,
Popol Vuh,
Quando Quango,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.