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 Cape Verde and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Little Man to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moleskins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum 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 rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Lebanon Hanover,
Laurel Aitken,
Los Fastidios,
The Sonics,
Lalo Schifrin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Janne Schatter,
Spoonie Gee,
a-ha,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Camberwell Now,
Quando Quango,
Lee Hazlewood,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Outsiders,
Lower 48,
Niagra,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Cal Tjader,
Man Parrish,
Joy Division,
Avey Tare,
the Human League,
Pulsallama,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiohead,
Eric Copeland,
Roxette,
F. McDonald,
Adolescents,
Glenn Branca,
John Cale,
June of 44,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pylon,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Depeche Mode,
Alice Coltrane,
Jeru the Damaja,
Loose Ends,
Ludus,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Dead C,
Zapp,
Section 25,
Von Mondo,
Ken Boothe,
James White and The Blacks,
The Modern Lovers,
Ronan,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joyce Sims,
Brass Construction,
The Associates,
Crash Course in Science,
Flipper,
Neu!,
Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can, Bang On A Can.
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.