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 Cameroon and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Ultramagnetic MC's to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Associates. All the underground hits.
All Echo & the Bunnymen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator 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 sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
The Cure,
Warsaw,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
48th St. Collective,
Peter and Kerry,
The Move,
ABBA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Stereo Dub,
Rotary Connection,
Black Bananas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Leaves,
The Slits,
T.S.O.L.,
The Golliwogs,
Gang of Four,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Shuggie Otis,
Josef K,
10cc,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Groovy Waters,
Quando Quango,
Deepchord,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Little Man,
David Bowie,
AZ,
Eric Dolphy,
Stetsasonic,
Don Cherry,
Eyeless In Gaza,
U.S. Maple,
Youth Brigade,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Cymande,
Stiv Bators,
Whodini,
June of 44,
The Index,
The Fall,
The Remains,
Panda Bear,
The Selecter,
The Durutti Column,
Lightning Bolt,
D'Angelo,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lalo Schifrin,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Au Pairs,
The Human League,
Unwound,
Scrapy,
Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls, Marine Girls.
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.