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 Iran and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Golliwogs to the rap 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marine Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar 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,
the Germs,
Radiohead,
Stereo Dub,
Main Source,
The Seeds,
The New Christs,
Grauzone,
Tomorrow,
Bill Near,
Oblivians,
Altered Images,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sandy B,
Dennis Brown,
Brass Construction,
Kurtis Blow,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Prince Buster,
Symarip,
Nils Olav,
Deadbeat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fort Wilson Riot,
the Swans,
Eden Ahbez,
Lebanon Hanover,
Joe Smooth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Five Americans,
Sam Rivers,
Piero Umiliani,
Moss Icon,
Blossom Toes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Los Fastidios,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rod Modell,
The Associates,
Gong,
Neu!,
Reuben Wilson,
Bush Tetras,
The Moleskins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Fall,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Crash Course in Science,
New Order,
Public Image Ltd.,
Jerry's Kids,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
AZ,
Arthur Verocai,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Qualms,
Soulsonic Force,
Au Pairs,
Sound Behaviour,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Warsaw,
the Normal,
Ronan,
Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre, Harpers Bizarre.
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.