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 Costa Rica and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 the Slits to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lungfish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a güiro.
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,
Bob Dylan,
Avey Tare,
Eric Dolphy,
Scion,
Basic Channel,
Adolescents,
Althea and Donna,
The Evens,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Amon Düül,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alison Limerick,
Ronan,
Whodini,
Maurizio,
The Blackbyrds,
Marvin Gaye,
LL Cool J,
Mandrill,
Khruangbin,
Ralphi Rosario,
Second Layer,
The Walker Brothers,
F. McDonald,
Tubeway Army,
Faust,
The Fire Engines,
Michelle Simonal,
Public Enemy,
Youth Brigade,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
K-Klass,
Joe Finger,
Shuggie Otis,
Shoche,
Johnny Clarke,
Dual Sessions,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gong,
The Raincoats,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Unrelated Segments,
Lower 48,
Vainqueur,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crash Course in Science,
R.M.O.,
Junior Murvin,
Eric B and Rakim,
the Association,
One Last Wish,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Cowsills,
Laurel Aitken,
Gang Starr,
The Cramps,
Dead Boys,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.