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 Singapore and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Delon & Dalcan to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All The Dirtbombs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gong 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ice-T record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
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,
Chrome,
Tommy Roe,
Ohio Players,
Todd Rundgren,
Sam Rivers,
Sight & Sound,
The Cowsills,
Au Pairs,
B.T. Express,
Arcadia,
Jesper Dahlback,
Toni Rubio,
Half Japanese,
Television Personalities,
The Wake,
Organ,
The Star Department,
The Gories,
Fluxion,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Walker Brothers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Johnny Clarke,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Dave Gahan,
Moebius,
Dennis Brown,
Clear Light,
Bluetip,
Max Romeo,
Amon Düül II,
Sandy B,
The Seeds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Eli Mardock,
Fifty Foot Hose,
June of 44,
Curtis Mayfield,
A Certain Ratio,
Animal Collective,
Sun City Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
E-Dancer,
Visage,
Ultra Naté,
Rites of Spring,
Patti Smith,
Pulsallama,
John Lydon,
The Count Five,
Vainqueur,
Agent Orange,
U.S. Maple,
Arab on Radar,
Andrew Hill,
Sun Ra,
Skriet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Frankie Knuckles,
One Last Wish,
Marine Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx.
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.