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 St Kitts & Nevis and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Scion to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Sad Lovers and Giants tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Marmalade,
Quando Quango,
The Last Poets,
8 Eyed Spy,
Soul II Soul,
Suicide,
Bizarre Inc.,
Grey Daturas,
The Gladiators,
Shoche,
Agitation Free,
The Residents,
Cheater Slicks,
Freddie Wadling,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Litter,
Unrelated Segments,
The Dirtbombs,
Japan,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Barry Ungar,
cv313,
Sonny Sharrock,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Golliwogs,
Accadde A,
Erasure,
The Victims,
Archie Shepp,
Los Fastidios,
The Divine Comedy,
Brass Construction,
The Red Krayola,
The Remains,
Public Image Ltd.,
the Bar-Kays,
Iggy Pop,
Skaos,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gong,
Robert Wyatt,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lyres,
Brand Nubian,
Black Bananas,
A Flock of Seagulls,
La Düsseldorf,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sällskapet,
Glenn Branca,
The J.B.'s,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ronnie Foster,
Radiohead,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
David McCallum,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.