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 Oman and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Don Cherry to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All B.T. Express tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Index record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba 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 guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
The Remains,
Reagan Youth,
Jandek,
Lightning Bolt,
Jeff Lynne,
Alphaville,
Radiohead,
Donny Hathaway,
Josef K,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Motions,
Slick Rick,
Kerri Chandler,
Dark Day,
Adolescents,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minnie Riperton,
The Gap Band,
Roger Hodgson,
Loose Ends,
Kas Product,
Supertramp,
Pet Shop Boys,
Jerry's Kids,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Marmalade,
Delta 5,
Siglo XX,
Ludus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Talk Talk,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Juan Atkins,
a-ha,
Dead Boys,
Neil Young,
Brick,
Ultra Naté,
Bobby Womack,
Marcia Griffiths,
Heaven 17,
AZ,
The Knickerbockers,
Warsaw,
Jimmy McGriff,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Zapp,
Intrusion,
Glenn Branca,
Soulsonic Force,
Scratch Acid,
Aaron Thompson,
Sam Rivers,
Marc Almond,
Depeche Mode,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
New York Dolls,
Goldenarms,
The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement, The Neon Judgement.
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.