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 Maldives and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in 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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Seoul.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the güiro 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 JFA to the dance 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 Eli Mardock. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hot Snakes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yusef Lateef record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
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,
Joensuu 1685,
Max Romeo,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Isaac Hayes,
Arcadia,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bluetip,
Symarip,
Sound Behaviour,
Tres Demented,
Ituana,
The Smiths,
Dawn Penn,
The Toasters,
Todd Rundgren,
Kerri Chandler,
Soulsonic Force,
Lightning Bolt,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slick Rick,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ornette Coleman,
Barbara Tucker,
Wire,
Stiv Bators,
ABBA,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Saints,
The Cowsills,
The Divine Comedy,
Unrelated Segments,
Altered Images,
Sister Nancy,
Pussy Galore,
Gang of Four,
Hot Snakes,
Supertramp,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warren Ellis,
Whodini,
The Five Americans,
Aloha Tigers,
Los Fastidios,
Idris Muhammad,
The Misunderstood,
Circle Jerks,
Peter & Gordon,
Bob Dylan,
Nas,
Von Mondo,
Flipper,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Prince Buster,
Big Daddy Kane,
Maurizio,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
David McCallum,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Derrick May,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.