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 Brunei and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 DNA to the funk 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a harpsichord 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 mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
R.M.O.,
Marvin Gaye,
Stockholm Monsters,
Scott Walker,
Gang Green,
Television Personalities,
Max Romeo,
Harmonia,
Fela Kuti,
Minny Pops,
Andrew Hill,
La Düsseldorf,
The Gun Club,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Aswad,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ice-T,
Henry Cow,
CMW,
Terry Callier,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
In Retrospect,
Duran Duran,
Swell Maps,
Masters at Work,
FM Einheit,
Newcleus,
X-102,
Gang of Four,
Radiohead,
Sparks,
Shoche,
Brass Construction,
Silicon Teens,
Erasure,
Delta 5,
Bauhaus,
The Smoke,
Pantytec,
Bob Dylan,
Donald Byrd,
LL Cool J,
One Last Wish,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
the Human League,
Mantronix,
Underground Resistance,
Ken Boothe,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Youth Brigade,
Boz Scaggs,
Zero Boys,
Glambeats Corp.,
DNA,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dave Gahan,
Robert Hood,
Scratch Acid,
Circle Jerks,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.