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 Uganda and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Ralphi Rosario to the disco 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar 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 marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
D'Angelo,
Fad Gadget,
Aloha Tigers,
The Searchers,
the Normal,
Bob Dylan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Au Pairs,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cure,
Quando Quango,
Excepter,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Toasters,
The Kinks,
Roy Ayers,
Joe Finger,
Little Man,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Minutemen,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Names,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Man Parrish,
Dave Gahan,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Warsaw,
The Cramps,
Gang Green,
Nils Olav,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Yazoo,
Kas Product,
Deakin,
The Buckinghams,
Radiohead,
Moebius,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rapeman,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Negative Approach,
The Golliwogs,
Chrome,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Charles Mingus,
Maurizio,
Neu!,
Girls At Our Best!,
Crime,
Joensuu 1685,
Dead Boys,
Parry Music,
Sex Pistols,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pantaleimon,
Aaron Thompson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
X-101,
Fatback Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Kenny Larkin,
The Misunderstood,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282.
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.