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 Georgia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Stiv Bators 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Infiniti,
Deepchord,
Minny Pops,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ralphi Rosario,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Scientists,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Popol Vuh,
Grandmaster Flash,
Andrew Hill,
The Busters,
Average White Band,
DNA,
Michelle Simonal,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barclay James Harvest,
These Immortal Souls,
Yusef Lateef,
The Stooges,
CMW,
Banda Bassotti,
Fluxion,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Curtis Mayfield,
China Crisis,
the Slits,
Sugar Minott,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Cymande,
The Toasters,
Freddie Wadling,
Janne Schatter,
The Cramps,
June Days,
Erykah Badu,
Jawbox,
Tubeway Army,
Nas,
Sällskapet,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Swell Maps,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sixth Finger,
Thompson Twins,
Nick Fraelich,
Skaos,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Divine Comedy,
Procol Harum,
Aswad,
Boz Scaggs,
The Invisible,
Brick,
Outsiders,
The Smoke,
Black Moon,
Siglo XX,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.