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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Cairo.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar 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 Nirvana to the jazz 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul II Soul record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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,
Public Enemy,
the Normal,
Technova,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Amon Düül,
Rufus Thomas,
Massinfluence,
the Sonics,
Graham Central Station,
The Golliwogs,
Carl Craig,
Mary Jane Girls,
Shuggie Otis,
Lucky Dragons,
The Associates,
Laurel Aitken,
DNA,
Section 25,
Nirvana,
Dennis Brown,
Janne Schatter,
Faust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lakeside,
Minor Threat,
The Knickerbockers,
Derrick Morgan,
Royal Trux,
Kevin Saunderson,
Steve Hackett,
KRS-One,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Fall,
Niagra,
Little Man,
The Barracudas,
Robert Hood,
Mr. Review,
Kayak,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Urselle,
Youth Brigade,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Monks,
The Pretty Things,
T.S.O.L.,
Gerry Rafferty,
Bobby Sherman,
Sun Ra,
Echospace,
Liliput,
Moss Icon,
Thee Headcoats,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Agitation Free,
Sam Rivers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Animal Collective,
Gang Gang Dance,
Archie Shepp,
Mars,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.