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 Slovakia and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Hoover to the funk 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 Ten City. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a 808 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 mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Q and Not U,
Mission of Burma,
Young Marble Giants,
Circle Jerks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Mantronix,
The Saints,
Camberwell Now,
Index,
The Victims,
The Misunderstood,
Faraquet,
the Slits,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Roy Ayers,
Urselle,
Toni Rubio,
Gang Starr,
Jimmy McGriff,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Piero Umiliani,
The Dave Clark Five,
Hot Snakes,
Prince Buster,
Spoonie Gee,
Delon & Dalcan,
Robert Wyatt,
Hoover,
Von Mondo,
Sugar Minott,
Neu!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Buzzcocks,
Fatback Band,
Cybotron,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Television Personalities,
Matthew Halsall,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Hashim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-101,
Lindisfarne,
Qualms,
The Techniques,
Robert Hood,
Khruangbin,
Godley & Creme,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Star Department,
Symarip,
Procol Harum,
The Fuzztones,
Dawn Penn,
Funky Four + One,
T. Rex,
Visage,
Connie Case,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Blancmange,
Morten Harket,
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick.
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.