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 Suriname and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Beasts of Bourbon to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Red Lorry Yellow Lorry. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 mellotron and a güiro 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 organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Josef K,
Wings,
Bad Manners,
Neil Young,
Shuggie Otis,
Roger Hodgson,
Absolute Body Control,
Blake Baxter,
New Age Steppers,
K-Klass,
The Associates,
Hasil Adkins,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ituana,
Y Pants,
Theoretical Girls,
Joey Negro,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Danielle Patucci,
David McCallum,
Leonard Cohen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Altered Images,
Black Pus,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Monochrome Set,
Be Bop Deluxe,
the Germs,
The Pop Group,
Mo-Dettes,
The American Breed,
X-Ray Spex,
Shoche,
Crispy Ambulance,
The New Christs,
Charles Mingus,
Joe Finger,
Glenn Branca,
Grey Daturas,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Moby Grape,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June of 44,
Mary Jane Girls,
Lalo Schifrin,
Duran Duran,
Bobby Womack,
Bauhaus,
The Blues Magoos,
Parry Music,
Flamin' Groovies,
The J.B.'s,
Neu!,
June Days,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Gories,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Silicon Teens,
Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound, Rhythm & Sound.
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.