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 Djibouti and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 De La Soul & Jungle Brothers to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar 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 chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sisters of Mercy,
Yellowson,
The Modern Lovers,
Theoretical Girls,
Lower 48,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scion,
Los Fastidios,
Kevin Saunderson,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Gang Starr,
Hardrive,
Pere Ubu,
John Foxx,
Roxy Music,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Görl,
Roy Ayers,
The Real Kids,
The Fugs,
The Black Dice,
Jerry's Kids,
Donald Byrd,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Roxette,
The Star Department,
Icehouse,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Names,
Y Pants,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Remains,
Mantronix,
Carl Craig,
Inner City,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Masters at Work,
Derrick Morgan,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Depeche Mode,
Unrelated Segments,
Agitation Free,
Gregory Isaacs,
the Slits,
Boredoms,
Saccharine Trust,
Barclay James Harvest,
Soul Sonic Force,
Khruangbin,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Standells,
Morten Harket,
Maurizio,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Eurythmics,
E-Dancer,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Josef K, Josef K, Josef K, Josef K.
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.