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 Turkey and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Q65 to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonny Sharrock 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 an organ 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?
Little Man,
Pere Ubu,
Marmalade,
Peter and Kerry,
Letta Mbulu,
Carl Craig,
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Robert Görl,
Whodini,
Swans,
Young Marble Giants,
Lou Reed,
Oblivians,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Piero Umiliani,
Spoonie Gee,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fuzztones,
Chrome,
Infiniti,
The Victims,
Eurythmics,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Maurizio,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arab on Radar,
Malaria!,
Nik Kershaw,
June Days,
The Monks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Q65,
10cc,
The Vogues,
Au Pairs,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fire Engines,
The Raincoats,
The Martian,
Bad Manners,
Lakeside,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Skriet,
Magma,
Connie Case,
Fad Gadget,
K-Klass,
the Slits,
Underground Resistance,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crash Course in Science,
D'Angelo,
Dead Boys,
Ten City,
Dual Sessions,
L. Decosne,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lucky Dragons,
Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Rhythim Is Rhythim.
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.