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 Tunisia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Altered Images to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Amon Düül II. All the underground hits.
All Kurtis Blow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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,
Nirvana,
Skaos,
The Skatalites,
Juan Atkins,
Alton Ellis,
The Martian,
Sandy B,
The Cramps,
The Associates,
Skriet,
Harmonia,
The Mummies,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Doors,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gang Starr,
Lower 48,
Tim Buckley,
Isaac Hayes,
The Seeds,
Eric Copeland,
Skarface,
Bronski Beat,
The Misunderstood,
The Young Rascals,
Chrome,
Au Pairs,
The Angels of Light,
KRS-One,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Gap Band,
Fat Boys,
The Divine Comedy,
Delta 5,
the Swans,
Rod Modell,
Albert Ayler,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Stooges,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Walker Brothers,
Excepter,
Rotary Connection,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roxy Music,
Kas Product,
Soft Cell,
Kerri Chandler,
T. Rex,
Quando Quango,
Bill Wells,
The Slits,
Television Personalities,
Ice-T,
Spandau Ballet,
The Fire Engines,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Alice Coltrane,
Swans,
The Raincoats,
Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby, Dorothy Ashby.
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.