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 Finland and from Philadelphia.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the disco 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 Joensuu 1685. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a rhodes 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 an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Arab on Radar,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Derrick May,
Thompson Twins,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ultra Naté,
This Heat,
The Kinks,
Metal Thangz,
The Gladiators,
Eli Mardock,
Newcleus,
Matthew Halsall,
The Invisible,
Kerrie Biddell,
Black Bananas,
Scion,
The Real Kids,
Amon Düül,
Tomorrow,
The Move,
Ultimate Spinach,
Massinfluence,
Yellowson,
Sister Nancy,
Rufus Thomas,
Panda Bear,
Jawbox,
Roxy Music,
Arcadia,
Depeche Mode,
Boz Scaggs,
Flipper,
Eric Dolphy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sun Ra,
The Moleskins,
Jerry's Kids,
Ohio Players,
Lakeside,
The Dave Clark Five,
Aswad,
the Soft Cell,
The Knickerbockers,
DNA,
Television Personalities,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Circle Jerks,
Idris Muhammad,
Ken Boothe,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Eden Ahbez,
Essential Logic,
R.M.O.,
Rapeman,
Joyce Sims,
Ten City,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deadbeat,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.