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 Morocco and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Jimmy McGriff 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 Jeru the Damaja. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a spring reverb 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 spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Erykah Badu,
Rufus Thomas,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Second Layer,
Saccharine Trust,
Essential Logic,
Main Source,
Derrick Morgan,
Ponytail,
Tim Buckley,
Thee Headcoats,
Aural Exciters,
Cybotron,
Metal Thangz,
Skriet,
the Human League,
The Barracudas,
X-Ray Spex,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Parry Music,
Reuben Wilson,
Urselle,
Hot Snakes,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DJ Style,
Inner City,
Bill Near,
48th St. Collective,
Rakim,
Pagans,
Piero Umiliani,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Royal Trux,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Monolake,
Ronan,
One Last Wish,
The Toasters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ken Boothe,
The Techniques,
Barrington Levy,
Yaz,
FM Einheit,
Johnny Clarke,
Scrapy,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Bronski Beat,
Television,
Connie Case,
Au Pairs,
The Selecter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Mr. Review,
Black Bananas,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Christie,
Patti Smith,
Lucky Dragons,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.