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 Libya and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Seeds to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Freddie Wadling,
PIL,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Stooges,
Excepter,
Brothers Johnson,
Half Japanese,
Kaleidoscope,
Joensuu 1685,
Fluxion,
Dawn Penn,
Rosa Yemen,
Supertramp,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Visage,
The Pop Group,
The Martian,
The Names,
Radiopuhelimet,
Alison Limerick,
Smog,
Soft Machine,
The Busters,
Ponytail,
the Soft Cell,
Camberwell Now,
Pierre Henry,
Sparks,
Hoover,
Blossom Toes,
Negative Approach,
The Invisible,
Henry Cow,
Nation of Ulysses,
Ronan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Susan Cadogan,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Easy Going,
Junior Murvin,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Bad Manners,
The Alarm Clocks,
Alice Coltrane,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Divine Comedy,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Hashim,
Anakelly,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
ABC,
Matthew Halsall,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Brass Construction,
The Monks,
The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids, The Real Kids.
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.