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 Monaco and from Stockholm.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 snare 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 Kerrie Biddell to the rock 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rufus Thomas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and a sitar 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 theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Saccharine Trust,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warren Ellis,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Metal Thangz,
Shuggie Otis,
The Litter,
Joensuu 1685,
Sixth Finger,
Altered Images,
Groovy Waters,
Ultimate Spinach,
Matthew Halsall,
Liliput,
Jeru the Damaja,
Glenn Branca,
Stetsasonic,
Deakin,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Misunderstood,
Minor Threat,
Bill Near,
The Blues Magoos,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joe Smooth,
Nico,
Eric Copeland,
The Cowsills,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Dirtbombs,
The American Breed,
Qualms,
DJ Sneak,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Marvin Gaye,
The Smoke,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Curtis Mayfield,
The United States of America,
Eyeless In Gaza,
MC5,
The Shadows of Knight,
Trumans Water,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
CMW,
Mad Mike,
The Trojans,
Loose Ends,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rekid,
Babytalk,
Freddie Wadling,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Blancmange,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Lindisfarne,
T. Rex,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane Girls, Mary Jane 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.