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 Liberia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 techno 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Max Romeo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Near record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Steve Hackett,
Ornette Coleman,
Absolute Body Control,
The Dave Clark Five,
Neu!,
Motorama,
Monks,
D'Angelo,
Gabor Szabo,
Nick Fraelich,
Funkadelic,
Alice Coltrane,
Easy Going,
Minutemen,
Lakeside,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jandek,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mad Mike,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Howard Jones,
Skaos,
Radiopuhelimet,
June of 44,
Morten Harket,
Adolescents,
Symarip,
cv313,
Eric Dolphy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Avey Tare,
Prince Buster,
The Smiths,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ohio Players,
Tommy Roe,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rod Modell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
F. McDonald,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ronan,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Funky Four + One,
The Cure,
Agitation Free,
Junior Murvin,
The Monochrome Set,
Boredoms,
The Star Department,
OOIOO,
Fluxion,
Country Teasers,
Audionom,
The Five Americans,
The Modern Lovers,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Franke,
Letta Mbulu,
Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot, Fort Wilson Riot.
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.