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 Bahamas and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 Country Teasers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Public Enemy. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
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,
Eve St. Jones,
Amazonics,
The Knickerbockers,
The Gap Band,
Little Man,
Aloha Tigers,
Radiohead,
Kas Product,
Zapp,
Swans,
Excepter,
Max Romeo,
Country Teasers,
Soft Machine,
Lalo Schifrin,
Laurel Aitken,
The Sonics,
Lyres,
Absolute Body Control,
Eden Ahbez,
Accadde A,
Joyce Sims,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eli Mardock,
Chris Corsano,
Throbbing Gristle,
Saccharine Trust,
Chrome,
Reagan Youth,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Barclay James Harvest,
Darondo,
Fear,
Dave Gahan,
Spoonie Gee,
Silicon Teens,
The Young Rascals,
Crispy Ambulance,
Simply Red,
These Immortal Souls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nico,
The Electric Prunes,
Reuben Wilson,
Sixth Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sparks,
The Neon Judgement,
Michelle Simonal,
Black Pus,
Fugazi,
Inner City,
Roy Ayers,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Selecter,
The Vogues,
Brothers Johnson,
Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore, Pussy Galore.
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.