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 Taiwan and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Harmonia to the techno 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 Cabaret Voltaire. All the underground hits.
All the Association tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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,
Ultra Naté,
The Techniques,
The Martian,
The Stooges,
Clear Light,
Pere Ubu,
Scan 7,
Magma,
The Monks,
Fluxion,
Japan,
Sun Ra,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Graham Central Station,
Throbbing Gristle,
Index,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Gong,
Dorothy Ashby,
Siglo XX,
Barbara Tucker,
Guru Guru,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cowsills,
Patti Smith,
Leonard Cohen,
The Raincoats,
The Grass Roots,
Jeru the Damaja,
Smog,
Deakin,
Sexual Harrassment,
Minor Threat,
AZ,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Girls At Our Best!,
Colin Newman,
Fugazi,
Eric Dolphy,
JFA,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nas,
New Order,
Harpers Bizarre,
Erasure,
One Last Wish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Junior Murvin,
Steve Hackett,
Tommy Roe,
Jacob Miller,
Davy DMX,
Interpol,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Carl Craig,
The Blues Magoos,
Lou Reed,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Knickerbockers,
Ronan,
Skriet,
The Blackbyrds,
U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple, U.S. Maple.
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.