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 Peru and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the 808 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 E-Dancer to the funk 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythm & Sound 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mark Hollis,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Kayak,
The Neon Judgement,
Jesper Dahlback,
Slick Rick,
Wings,
The Doobie Brothers,
Patti Smith,
Zapp,
Cymande,
Archie Shepp,
The Vogues,
Clear Light,
Funky Four + One,
Cecil Taylor,
Howard Jones,
Gong,
Suicide,
Soul II Soul,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Loose Ends,
Roxy Music,
Reagan Youth,
Tubeway Army,
Jimmy McGriff,
Moby Grape,
Yellowson,
The Evens,
The Happenings,
The Knickerbockers,
Flash Fearless,
The Moleskins,
Radiopuhelimet,
World's Most,
the Swans,
Scratch Acid,
Lightning Bolt,
Cameo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Amazonics,
The Stooges,
Wally Richardson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Porter Ricks,
Sex Pistols,
The Sonics,
The J.B.'s,
The Modern Lovers,
The Toasters,
Rod Modell,
Kas Product,
Easy Going,
Brick,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Youth Brigade,
Toni Rubio,
The Young Rascals,
The New Christs,
Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo, Yazoo.
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.