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 Estonia and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soul II Soul to the dance 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
The Tremeloes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
8 Eyed Spy,
Boogie Down Productions,
Dead Boys,
The Cramps,
Los Fastidios,
Y Pants,
Flash Fearless,
Delta 5,
Albert Ayler,
Gang Starr,
Echospace,
Connie Case,
Young Marble Giants,
Barry Ungar,
Leonard Cohen,
Sonic Youth,
Surgeon,
The Angels of Light,
Harpers Bizarre,
Alice Coltrane,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Scrapy,
Carl Craig,
a-ha,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Michelle Simonal,
Tommy Roe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed,
Arthur Verocai,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Busters,
Jeff Mills,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gil Scott Heron,
the Germs,
Monolake,
Ronan,
Outsiders,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Derrick Morgan,
Basic Channel,
Rekid,
Zero Boys,
Loose Ends,
Blossom Toes,
Saccharine Trust,
Anthony Braxton,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bob Dylan,
Cluster,
AZ,
Byron Stingily,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Accadde A,
Index,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lungfish,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama, Pulsallama.
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.