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 Sri Lanka and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Seoul.
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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Morten Harket to the rap 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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The American Breed record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Big Daddy Kane record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
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,
Excepter,
JFA,
Symarip,
Nico,
Thee Headcoats,
These Immortal Souls,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bizarre Inc.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Dennis Brown,
Rites of Spring,
Tomorrow,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Victims,
PIL,
Heaven 17,
Marine Girls,
Marmalade,
Metal Thangz,
Circle Jerks,
Mars,
Whodini,
Joe Smooth,
Sarah Menescal,
Cameo,
Minor Threat,
Cheater Slicks,
Magma,
Josef K,
Livin' Joy,
Bob Dylan,
The Busters,
The Birthday Party,
Skriet,
Schoolly D,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Freddie Wadling,
The Doors,
Be Bop Deluxe,
kango's stein massive,
Tom Boy,
The Moody Blues,
Traffic Nightmare,
B.T. Express,
Malaria!,
Arthur Verocai,
The Kinks,
The Black Dice,
Negative Approach,
Crime,
Camberwell Now,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Roger Hodgson,
The Mojo Men,
Surgeon,
Gabor Szabo,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.