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 Sierra Leone and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Lyres to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Marc Almond. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City 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 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
JFA,
Yazoo,
Echospace,
Flash Fearless,
Tres Demented,
Jerry's Kids,
the Bar-Kays,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
EPMD,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Procol Harum,
Oblivians,
Thompson Twins,
Fatback Band,
The Blues Magoos,
Soul II Soul,
The Buckinghams,
Ten City,
The Moleskins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Guru Guru,
The Associates,
Reagan Youth,
David Bowie,
Symarip,
Cal Tjader,
David Axelrod,
Theoretical Girls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ultra Naté,
The Trojans,
Tears for Fears,
Mars,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sandy B,
Bang On A Can,
The Evens,
Agent Orange,
Fela Kuti,
John Holt,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Motorama,
Public Enemy,
The Cramps,
The United States of America,
Sister Nancy,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Radiopuhelimet,
Buzzcocks,
AZ,
Dave Gahan,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Vogues,
Unrelated Segments,
the Sonics,
Judy Mowatt,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Blackbyrds,
Donald Byrd,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.
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.