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 Guinea and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Madrid and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Siouxsie and the Banshees to the rock 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q65 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Gong,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sparks,
The Doors,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
David Bowie,
Barbara Tucker,
Reagan Youth,
Panda Bear,
John Coltrane,
EPMD,
The Leaves,
DNA,
Fatback Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
8 Eyed Spy,
Soul Sonic Force,
Adolescents,
Swans,
Marcia Griffiths,
Pet Shop Boys,
Spoonie Gee,
The Invisible,
Camberwell Now,
Girls At Our Best!,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cramps,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bill Wells,
Nas,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Toasters,
Robert Görl,
John Foxx,
Icehouse,
The Selecter,
Dawn Penn,
Black Moon,
Smog,
Arcadia,
The Modern Lovers,
Sun City Girls,
Talk Talk,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Monolake,
the Bar-Kays,
The Pop Group,
The Mummies,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bob Dylan,
Animal Collective,
Siglo XX,
Nico,
Motorama,
Gang Starr,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
ABBA,
The New Christs,
Fear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.