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 Gambia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The J.B.'s. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mad Mike record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb 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 arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Grandmaster Flash,
Gong,
Scan 7,
Newcleus,
Fluxion,
Pussy Galore,
Robert Görl,
Eli Mardock,
The Invisible,
Black Moon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ice-T,
The Pretty Things,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Selecter,
Underground Resistance,
Vainqueur,
Whodini,
Grey Daturas,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Soft Cell,
Lightning Bolt,
Unwound,
cv313,
Pulsallama,
Von Mondo,
Shoche,
X-Ray Spex,
DNA,
Deakin,
Negative Approach,
The Litter,
Dave Gahan,
Brothers Johnson,
Fatback Band,
Oneida,
Amon Düül II,
Yazoo,
Monolake,
The United States of America,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Letta Mbulu,
Kurtis Blow,
L. Decosne,
Duran Duran,
John Cale,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gap Band,
Rakim,
The Victims,
World's Most,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Procol Harum,
Iggy Pop,
The Monks,
Roger Hodgson,
DJ Sneak,
the Sonics,
Robert Hood,
Peter & Gordon,
Andrew Hill,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.