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 Kuwait and from Seoul.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 arpeggiator 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 Faust to the jazz 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 Carl Craig. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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,
Deakin,
The Invisible,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Mojo Men,
Monolake,
Tropical Tobacco,
Model 500,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Gap Band,
K-Klass,
Warren Ellis,
The Kinks,
Unrelated Segments,
Duran Duran,
Sun Ra,
The Monks,
Bobby Byrd,
The Toasters,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Sound,
Gang Green,
The Pretty Things,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Zeros,
Albert Ayler,
cv313,
Shuggie Otis,
The Dirtbombs,
Hashim,
The Fuzztones,
Bronski Beat,
Marc Almond,
Susan Cadogan,
The Blackbyrds,
Mr. Review,
Underground Resistance,
Ten City,
Sex Pistols,
Pylon,
Nico,
The Martian,
Suburban Knight,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Patti Smith,
Glambeats Corp.,
Symarip,
Althea and Donna,
Roy Ayers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
La Düsseldorf,
Soulsonic Force,
Pharoah Sanders,
Kerri Chandler,
The Golliwogs,
The Music Machine,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Radiopuhelimet,
Harry Pussy,
Mad Mike,
The Gories,
Cameo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.