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 Russia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the sitar 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 Minor Threat to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Knickerbockers,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Charles Mingus,
Radiohead,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
10cc,
The Busters,
The Star Department,
Juan Atkins,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kenny Larkin,
The Modern Lovers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Second Layer,
Letta Mbulu,
Danielle Patucci,
Mr. Review,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Section 25,
Pere Ubu,
ABBA,
Bush Tetras,
MC5,
Bootsy Collins,
Tres Demented,
The Divine Comedy,
The Buckinghams,
The Music Machine,
Harry Pussy,
Altered Images,
Buzzcocks,
Icehouse,
Connie Case,
World's Most,
Lindisfarne,
Lou Reed,
Whodini,
Avey Tare,
The Zeros,
Marc Almond,
The Smoke,
Ultimate Spinach,
Amon Düül II,
Masters at Work,
Alison Limerick,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Siglo XX,
Brick,
The Leaves,
Adolescents,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sister Nancy,
Procol Harum,
Donald Byrd,
The Five Americans,
Hoover,
Roxy Music,
Nirvana,
Severed Heads,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.