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 Nauru and from Hong Kong.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mumbai.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Hoover to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All PIL tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum 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 harpsichord and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Arcadia,
The Skatalites,
Masters at Work,
Eve St. Jones,
The Smoke,
H. Thieme,
Quantec,
Glenn Branca,
Q65,
The Mummies,
Kayak,
Yazoo,
John Holt,
Scan 7,
The Star Department,
Visage,
Isaac Hayes,
La Düsseldorf,
Joy Division,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Eric B and Rakim,
Malaria!,
Stereo Dub,
Skaos,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
ABC,
The Slits,
The Velvet Underground,
Radiopuhelimet,
Chrome,
OOIOO,
The Divine Comedy,
Gabor Szabo,
A Certain Ratio,
Hasil Adkins,
Sam Rivers,
Inner City,
Gang Green,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Harmonia,
Kenny Larkin,
Man Parrish,
Soulsonic Force,
The Sound,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ralphi Rosario,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Funky Four + One,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sound Behaviour,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Magma,
Unwound,
Soul II Soul,
Andrew Hill,
Marvin Gaye,
Rosa Yemen,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Eurythmics,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.