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 Taiwan and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Hong Kong.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lyres to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet 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 clarinet and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-102,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Anakelly,
the Sonics,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
cv313,
The Angels of Light,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Ken Boothe,
Archie Shepp,
Mandrill,
Sugar Minott,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Seeds,
June of 44,
Hasil Adkins,
the Slits,
Radio Birdman,
Lakeside,
Jimmy McGriff,
Heaven 17,
The Fall,
Amazonics,
James White and The Blacks,
Godley & Creme,
Funky Four + One,
The Modern Lovers,
Gichy Dan,
Symarip,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cybotron,
Scrapy,
The Associates,
The Sonics,
Soul II Soul,
Kenny Larkin,
Gabor Szabo,
Jeff Mills,
Banda Bassotti,
Reagan Youth,
Byron Stingily,
the Normal,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jandek,
Soulsonic Force,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Infiniti,
Lebanon Hanover,
Barclay James Harvest,
Sandy B,
Scion,
Slave,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Leaves,
Toni Rubio,
Brass Construction,
The Golliwogs,
Sam Rivers,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.