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 Dominican Republic and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Jakarta.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Pet Shop Boys to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Country Joe & The Fish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin 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,
Isaac Hayes,
Brass Construction,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Human League,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Velvet Underground,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Quantec,
Pierre Henry,
Sparks,
Electric Prunes,
The J.B.'s,
Television Personalities,
The Monochrome Set,
China Crisis,
Television,
Donald Byrd,
10cc,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Albert Ayler,
Yellowson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joe Smooth,
The Tremeloes,
Model 500,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rotary Connection,
John Cale,
Rapeman,
Alison Limerick,
The Fall,
Bronski Beat,
Hashim,
Suicide,
Roxy Music,
Fugazi,
Sun City Girls,
Little Man,
Nirvana,
Morten Harket,
Ultimate Spinach,
MDC,
Derrick Morgan,
Schoolly D,
The Star Department,
The Wake,
Brothers Johnson,
Steve Hackett,
Altered Images,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Vogues,
The Move,
Guru Guru,
Warsaw,
The Cramps,
Talk Talk,
Eli Mardock,
Jandek,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Count Five,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.