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 Greece and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bobby Womack to the rock 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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Strawberry Alarm Clock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
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,
Mr. Review,
The Pretty Things,
The Real Kids,
Slave,
The Standells,
Depeche Mode,
Adolescents,
The New Christs,
the Sonics,
Scott Walker,
The Skatalites,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pere Ubu,
Bill Wells,
Tubeway Army,
T.S.O.L.,
Chris Corsano,
ABC,
The Invisible,
Smog,
Peter & Gordon,
Henry Cow,
Crash Course in Science,
Jeru the Damaja,
L. Decosne,
Bizarre Inc.,
Niagra,
The Young Rascals,
Porter Ricks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Soulsonic Force,
AZ,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Byrd,
Matthew Bourne,
Barbara Tucker,
Dave Gahan,
Mission of Burma,
Make Up,
Cal Tjader,
Faraquet,
Reuben Wilson,
Swell Maps,
Radio Birdman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Martian,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Eurythmics,
Kenny Larkin,
Harmonia,
Roger Hodgson,
China Crisis,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Brand Nubian,
Iggy Pop,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Amon Düül,
Kas Product,
Jimmy McGriff,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.