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 Gambia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Isaac Hayes to the rap 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Radiopuhelimet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 guitar and a spring reverb 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 marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Mary Jane Girls,
June Days,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bluetip,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Desert Stars,
Kayak,
Essential Logic,
The Fuzztones,
Boz Scaggs,
The Seeds,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Glenn Branca,
Aural Exciters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Motorama,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Todd Rundgren,
Junior Murvin,
Qualms,
Fad Gadget,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pharoah Sanders,
Wally Richardson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Spandau Ballet,
The Sound,
The Music Machine,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
Hashim,
Visage,
Amon Düül,
Black Sheep,
The Cure,
Robert Wyatt,
the Normal,
The Move,
Tomorrow,
kango's stein massive,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Joyce Sims,
Organ,
Fatback Band,
Ornette Coleman,
DNA,
Soulsonic Force,
Ohio Players,
Laurel Aitken,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bootsy Collins,
Heaven 17,
Dawn Penn,
Ten City,
Mad Mike,
The Red Krayola,
Barrington Levy,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.