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 Micronesia and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Erasure to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lindisfarne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum 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 synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lucky Dragons,
Sparks,
Tomorrow,
Quando Quango,
Mad Mike,
Michelle Simonal,
Tim Buckley,
The Count Five,
Unwound,
Kerri Chandler,
Wally Richardson,
Ice-T,
Ten City,
Eric Dolphy,
The Barracudas,
Joe Smooth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Human League,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Gang of Four,
The Blues Magoos,
Fad Gadget,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Real Kids,
The Searchers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Spoonie Gee,
Ronan,
Deadbeat,
Cymande,
Darondo,
UT,
Dorothy Ashby,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Sound,
Scan 7,
Radiohead,
Rites of Spring,
Quantec,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Yusef Lateef,
Intrusion,
Quadrant,
The Standells,
The Gap Band,
E-Dancer,
The J.B.'s,
Lungfish,
Rufus Thomas,
Kenny Larkin,
L. Decosne,
Masters at Work,
Glambeats Corp.,
Lyres,
Bobby Byrd,
The Durutti Column,
The Pop Group,
Au Pairs,
Kayak,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.