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 Israel and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ 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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sandy B. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Real Kids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
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,
The New Christs,
The Doors,
cv313,
Camberwell Now,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grey Daturas,
FM Einheit,
Niagra,
Derrick May,
The Sonics,
Mars,
the Fania All-Stars,
Dorothy Ashby,
Animal Collective,
Soft Machine,
David Axelrod,
Interpol,
Spoonie Gee,
Rapeman,
June Days,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Faraquet,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gang of Four,
James White and The Blacks,
Glenn Branca,
The Index,
Bill Near,
a-ha,
X-102,
Kaleidoscope,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Danielle Patucci,
Deadbeat,
Qualms,
Warren Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
K-Klass,
Skaos,
the Slits,
Morten Harket,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Royal Trux,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tropical Tobacco,
T.S.O.L.,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Association,
The Toasters,
Section 25,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Steve Hackett,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Flash Fearless,
The Busters,
Robert Görl,
Blake Baxter,
Flipper,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's Kids, Jerry's 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.