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 San Marino and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Fifty Foot Hose to the grunge 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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Man Eating Sloth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a chamberlin 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 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sam Rivers,
Public Image Ltd.,
Tropical Tobacco,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nik Kershaw,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythm & Sound,
Alphaville,
Ohio Players,
Agent Orange,
Toni Rubio,
Minnie Riperton,
The Doobie Brothers,
Japan,
The Fall,
Smog,
Altered Images,
Isaac Hayes,
FM Einheit,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skarface,
June Days,
Motorama,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Frankie Knuckles,
PIL,
The Walker Brothers,
Magma,
Gang Green,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
World's Most,
Archie Shepp,
Tubeway Army,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lindisfarne,
Dead Boys,
Black Flag,
The Real Kids,
Camberwell Now,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mark Hollis,
Magazine,
8 Eyed Spy,
Derrick May,
The Slackers,
The Count Five,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Average White Band,
Scion,
Gang Starr,
Terrestrial Tones,
Dave Gahan,
The Shadows of Knight,
a-ha,
Fatback Band,
D'Angelo,
Don Cherry,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.