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 Malaysia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Fire Engines. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
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,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Wake,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cecil Taylor,
Junior Murvin,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sound Behaviour,
Ornette Coleman,
Guru Guru,
In Retrospect,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eve St. Jones,
Youth Brigade,
Bill Wells,
Pere Ubu,
Nas,
Ponytail,
Michelle Simonal,
John Foxx,
Agent Orange,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Spandau Ballet,
Aural Exciters,
Black Bananas,
Chris & Cosey,
Danielle Patucci,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Stockholm Monsters,
Bill Near,
X-102,
The Young Rascals,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Royal Trux,
Bush Tetras,
New Order,
David McCallum,
Pagans,
The Gun Club,
The Happenings,
The Move,
Delta 5,
Marmalade,
Angry Samoans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Bad Manners,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sight & Sound,
Moebius,
Jerry's Kids,
Excepter,
Nik Kershaw,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
the Swans,
Roy Ayers,
Deepchord,
Japan,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party, The Birthday Party.
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.