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 Finland and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Icehouse to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin 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 sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Deepchord,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash,
Ohio Players,
UT,
Simply Red,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sight & Sound,
The Gladiators,
Electric Prunes,
Derrick Morgan,
D'Angelo,
The Divine Comedy,
OOIOO,
Kenny Larkin,
Supertramp,
The Skatalites,
Jerry's Kids,
MDC,
Unwound,
Qualms,
Peter & Gordon,
Barrington Levy,
Siglo XX,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Nas,
Sam Rivers,
Ten City,
Mad Mike,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Warren Ellis,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Charles Mingus,
Make Up,
Massinfluence,
Roy Ayers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Standells,
Yaz,
Slick Rick,
Pole,
John Holt,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Black Sheep,
Lindisfarne,
Alison Limerick,
The Motions,
Visage,
The Names,
Robert Hood,
the Association,
The Buckinghams,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Scientists,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic, Essential Logic.
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.