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 Maldives and from Spokane.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Crash Course in Science to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All The Blackbyrds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dark Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a harpsichord 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 theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
Peter and Kerry,
Flash Fearless,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Chrome,
Minor Threat,
The Zeros,
Dual Sessions,
Jandek,
Rotary Connection,
Rosa Yemen,
Soul Sonic Force,
Model 500,
Livin' Joy,
David McCallum,
Thee Headcoats,
Anthony Braxton,
The J.B.'s,
Lou Christie,
Roy Ayers,
Arcadia,
Kas Product,
Robert Hood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Dave Gahan,
Sonic Youth,
Cymande,
The Human League,
Man Parrish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Davy DMX,
kango's stein massive,
Kerri Chandler,
Cal Tjader,
KRS-One,
The Busters,
Letta Mbulu,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Age Steppers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
L. Decosne,
Banda Bassotti,
La Düsseldorf,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Icehouse,
Jerry's Kids,
The Dead C,
Skarface,
Brass Construction,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Drexciya,
Basic Channel,
The Evens,
The American Breed,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mad Mike,
Yazoo,
The Kinks,
the Human League,
Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid, Scratch Acid.
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.