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 Burkina and from Stockholm.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lalo Schifrin to the techno 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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 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 guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rhythm & Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Danielle Patucci,
The Real Kids,
The Gun Club,
Ken Boothe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eric Copeland,
Erykah Badu,
Mo-Dettes,
Rites of Spring,
Josef K,
Desert Stars,
Warsaw,
Connie Case,
Man Eating Sloth,
ABBA,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy Collins,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bobby Byrd,
Pylon,
Radio Birdman,
Minnie Riperton,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bobbi Humphrey,
MC5,
These Immortal Souls,
The Velvet Underground,
Sexual Harrassment,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Wake,
Bad Manners,
Visage,
Lebanon Hanover,
Quadrant,
Hasil Adkins,
Cal Tjader,
The New Christs,
Todd Rundgren,
Robert Görl,
Oblivians,
Swell Maps,
Sam Rivers,
Ice-T,
Gichy Dan,
The Motions,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Altered Images,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Leaves,
The Five Americans,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Golliwogs,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kenny Larkin,
Grauzone,
Massinfluence,
Accadde A,
Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction, Brass Construction.
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.