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 Croatia and from Mexico City.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 rhodes 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 Flipper to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Kinks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator 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 synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
ABBA,
Public Enemy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ultravox,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Johnny Osbourne,
Aaron Thompson,
X-101,
New Age Steppers,
Motorama,
The Red Krayola,
JFA,
Lindisfarne,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Marvin Gaye,
Tommy Roe,
Neil Young,
The Stooges,
The Fall,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jacob Miller,
Second Layer,
Brass Construction,
The Associates,
The Cramps,
The Human League,
Blake Baxter,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Severed Heads,
Hoover,
Gabor Szabo,
Lower 48,
Bang On A Can,
Visage,
The Remains,
The Sound,
Kaleidoscope,
Jimmy McGriff,
Robert Görl,
Radiopuhelimet,
The New Christs,
Goldenarms,
Ornette Coleman,
Dave Gahan,
Neu!,
Main Source,
Lalann,
Mary Jane Girls,
Von Mondo,
The Vogues,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Babytalk,
The Gap Band,
Fela Kuti,
Chris Corsano,
Television Personalities,
Judy Mowatt,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.