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 Saudi Arabia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the punk 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 synthesizer and a sitar 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 synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Sonic Youth,
The Skatalites,
Scratch Acid,
Henry Cow,
Matthew Bourne,
Model 500,
Motorama,
Barry Ungar,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Toasters,
Skarface,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Deepchord,
Barrington Levy,
UT,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pagans,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Coltrane,
Moebius,
The J.B.'s,
Zapp,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rufus Thomas,
Dual Sessions,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Raincoats,
Soft Cell,
Mark Hollis,
Lightning Bolt,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Arab on Radar,
Fatback Band,
Todd Rundgren,
Juan Atkins,
Rakim,
Spandau Ballet,
Slave,
The Motions,
Jandek,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crime,
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tomorrow,
La Düsseldorf,
Main Source,
Blake Baxter,
The Moleskins,
Blossom Toes,
Davy DMX,
Section 25,
Roxette,
the Normal,
The Fortunes,
The Offenders,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann, Lalann, Lalann, Lalann.
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.