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 El Salvador and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Adolescents to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 sitar 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 guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
Buzzcocks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
This Heat,
Interpol,
Suburban Knight,
Ohio Players,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Vogues,
Iggy Pop,
Jeff Lynne,
U.S. Maple,
Throbbing Gristle,
Quantec,
Fatback Band,
Archie Shepp,
Black Pus,
Ornette Coleman,
Kas Product,
Joy Division,
Bizarre Inc.,
Yaz,
The Slits,
Slave,
H. Thieme,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
the Association,
Shuggie Otis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Happenings,
The Golliwogs,
Tres Demented,
Khruangbin,
Porter Ricks,
Massinfluence,
Dark Day,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Amazonics,
Eli Mardock,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ralphi Rosario,
Echospace,
Alison Limerick,
Crash Course in Science,
Eurythmics,
The Star Department,
China Crisis,
Jerry's Kids,
Amon Düül II,
The Gories,
X-102,
Magma,
Black Flag,
Alton Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
Yazoo,
Siglo XX,
The Searchers,
Slick Rick,
Delta 5,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.