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 Burundi and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 snare 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 The Shadows of Knight to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Gang Gang Dance. All the underground hits.
All The Fall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
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,
Marmalade,
John Cale,
Moss Icon,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cowsills,
This Heat,
Roger Hodgson,
Piero Umiliani,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Visage,
Niagra,
CMW,
Big Daddy Kane,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sonny Sharrock,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Hashim,
Minny Pops,
The Count Five,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Five Americans,
Quantec,
Nick Fraelich,
The Fall,
Tomorrow,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dave Clark Five,
JFA,
The Knickerbockers,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Velvet Underground,
Nas,
Guru Guru,
Godley & Creme,
The Invisible,
Fear,
Steve Hackett,
Robert Görl,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Toni Rubio,
Curtis Mayfield,
Althea and Donna,
Massinfluence,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Prince Buster,
The Gun Club,
Soulsonic Force,
Lee Hazlewood,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cluster,
Marc Almond,
Pantaleimon,
The Last Poets,
Todd Rundgren,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ornette Coleman,
Yusef Lateef,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Leaves,
Monks,
Marine Girls,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.