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 Tanzania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Houston.
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 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Rekid to the jazz 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe 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 theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Holt,
Panda Bear,
Minutemen,
Aaron Thompson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
T. Rex,
Yaz,
Eli Mardock,
Thompson Twins,
Radiohead,
Mary Jane Girls,
Niagra,
Lalann,
Country Teasers,
The Martian,
Eddi Front,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Slackers,
Kool Moe Dee,
KRS-One,
Flamin' Groovies,
Crooked Eye,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Sugar Minott,
the Normal,
The Vogues,
Eve St. Jones,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Alphaville,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Amazonics,
Rakim,
Livin' Joy,
Ornette Coleman,
Moss Icon,
Matthew Halsall,
Dave Gahan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Henry Cow,
Aloha Tigers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Los Fastidios,
Gang Starr,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Tremeloes,
Easy Going,
China Crisis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Adolescents,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Erykah Badu,
The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones, The Fuzztones.
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.