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 Liechtenstein and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Fear to the jazz 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 Kenny Larkin. All the underground hits.
All June of 44 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mad Mike record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
Wire,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Yaz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Section 25,
Easy Going,
The Golliwogs,
The Busters,
T. Rex,
Deepchord,
The Fugs,
Don Cherry,
Sex Pistols,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Black Flag,
Reagan Youth,
Ponytail,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Brick,
Monks,
Silicon Teens,
Stereo Dub,
Swans,
The Moody Blues,
Alice Coltrane,
Von Mondo,
Godley & Creme,
kango's stein massive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Mandrill,
Trumans Water,
The New Christs,
The Invisible,
The Seeds,
Skaos,
Massinfluence,
Pagans,
The Offenders,
Pantaleimon,
Chrome,
Bluetip,
The Dirtbombs,
Deadbeat,
Minor Threat,
The Wake,
The Gladiators,
The Beau Brummels,
Public Enemy,
Hoover,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Blake Baxter,
Hasil Adkins,
The Doors,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eurythmics,
Siglo XX,
Black Moon,
Au Pairs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Essential Logic,
T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L., T.S.O.L..
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.