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 Georgia and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lyres to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 The Smoke. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
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,
Michelle Simonal,
Glenn Branca,
Heaven 17,
Albert Ayler,
Bronski Beat,
T.S.O.L.,
Lucky Dragons,
Jerry's Kids,
Davy DMX,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Germs,
Yusef Lateef,
Vainqueur,
Yazoo,
Judy Mowatt,
The Pretty Things,
Ultra Naté,
Soft Machine,
Magazine,
Subhumans,
Massinfluence,
Jesper Dahlback,
Robert Wyatt,
Masters at Work,
Lakeside,
Minny Pops,
Soul Sonic Force,
Funky Four + One,
Flash Fearless,
Sixth Finger,
John Holt,
Dave Gahan,
PIL,
Eden Ahbez,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
World's Most,
Jawbox,
Easy Going,
Warsaw,
The Gladiators,
Crooked Eye,
Idris Muhammad,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Mandrill,
Inner City,
Scientists,
Icehouse,
Terry Callier,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Monks,
Sun City Girls,
Black Sheep,
Ornette Coleman,
The American Breed,
One Last Wish,
The Wake,
China Crisis,
June of 44,
Quadrant,
Alison Limerick,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.