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 Montenegro and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Toni Rubio to the jazz 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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
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,
Bill Near,
Reuben Wilson,
Slick Rick,
Patti Smith,
Rotary Connection,
Fluxion,
Leonard Cohen,
The Angels of Light,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Skatalites,
CMW,
Crooked Eye,
Stetsasonic,
the Swans,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fall,
The Happenings,
Nils Olav,
Ronnie Foster,
Nirvana,
Skriet,
Robert Hood,
Shoche,
The Buckinghams,
Mad Mike,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Von Mondo,
The Fuzztones,
Fad Gadget,
Bizarre Inc.,
Icehouse,
The United States of America,
Heaven 17,
Essential Logic,
Rites of Spring,
Section 25,
The Residents,
Marine Girls,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Ohio Players,
Half Japanese,
Eurythmics,
Chris Corsano,
Fear,
Don Cherry,
Talk Talk,
In Retrospect,
Yazoo,
Skarface,
New Age Steppers,
Severed Heads,
The Victims,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lightning Bolt,
Arthur Verocai,
The Stooges,
Public Enemy,
The Remains,
L. Decosne,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.