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 Thailand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the sitar 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 The Cosmic Jokers to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 KRS-One. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer 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 oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
The Fall,
Davy DMX,
Soul II Soul,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Dead Boys,
Wings,
Vainqueur,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
New Age Steppers,
Subhumans,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Robert Görl,
Audionom,
Silicon Teens,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Maurizio,
Agitation Free,
Susan Cadogan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chris & Cosey,
Aural Exciters,
Circle Jerks,
Infiniti,
The Searchers,
Roger Hodgson,
Neu!,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Peter and Kerry,
Cybotron,
Heaven 17,
Barrington Levy,
John Holt,
The Five Americans,
June Days,
Brick,
Swans,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warren Ellis,
Archie Shepp,
Max Romeo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Busters,
Thompson Twins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Happenings,
The Fortunes,
Donald Byrd,
Gerry Rafferty,
Porter Ricks,
The Index,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Dark Day,
Kenny Larkin,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lyres,
The Cure,
Eric Copeland,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.