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 Brunei and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Yellowson to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Royal Family And The Poor record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Lydon,
Liliput,
Ituana,
Crooked Eye,
Toni Rubio,
The Toasters,
The Tremeloes,
Lalann,
The Selecter,
Aloha Tigers,
Zapp,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Glenn Branca,
Camouflage,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kaleidoscope,
John Foxx,
Depeche Mode,
Fat Boys,
Boz Scaggs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ronnie Foster,
Altered Images,
the Slits,
Interpol,
the Sonics,
Fear,
Sugar Minott,
Skarface,
JFA,
Outsiders,
Iggy Pop,
Scott Walker,
Frankie Knuckles,
Danielle Patucci,
Traffic Nightmare,
Radiopuhelimet,
Peter & Gordon,
Saccharine Trust,
Sixth Finger,
Bob Dylan,
Youth Brigade,
Aural Exciters,
Sun Ra,
Marvin Gaye,
Von Mondo,
Steve Hackett,
The Invisible,
Eli Mardock,
The Buckinghams,
The Index,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Black Pus,
In Retrospect,
Deakin,
Icehouse,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Smoke,
Sam Rivers,
Pantaleimon,
Lalo Schifrin,
Don Cherry,
Aswad, Aswad, Aswad, Aswad.
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.