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 Indonesia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gong to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Sonics. All the underground hits.
All Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Buckinghams record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord 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 snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
Electric Prunes,
Lucky Dragons,
Hardrive,
UT,
The Angels of Light,
Index,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Tommy Roe,
Alphaville,
Chrome,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lungfish,
Grandmaster Flash,
Parry Music,
Jacob Miller,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The New Christs,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lalann,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sandy B,
The Velvet Underground,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Germs,
Scion,
The Detroit Cobras,
Adolescents,
Eden Ahbez,
Magma,
The Vogues,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Easy Going,
Cal Tjader,
The Wake,
Marmalade,
T. Rex,
Drexciya,
The Invisible,
Quantec,
Rhythm & Sound,
Altered Images,
Arcadia,
H. Thieme,
Scrapy,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
B.T. Express,
The Tremeloes,
Animal Collective,
Hashim,
Henry Cow,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Cheater Slicks,
Albert Ayler,
Gang Gang Dance,
Aloha Tigers,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.