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 Belize and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fat Boys to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Au Pairs. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Maleditus Sound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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,
Bob Dylan,
Joe Smooth,
Kayak,
Procol Harum,
Dark Day,
Flash Fearless,
The New Christs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Main Source,
Metal Thangz,
Essential Logic,
Skriet,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Joy Division,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tommy Roe,
Jandek,
Soft Cell,
Sound Behaviour,
Ituana,
Scott Walker,
Guru Guru,
Wings,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Y Pants,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
the Bar-Kays,
Faraquet,
Nik Kershaw,
The Music Machine,
Absolute Body Control,
Harry Pussy,
Soft Machine,
The Seeds,
Cabaret Voltaire,
the Association,
Matthew Halsall,
MDC,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Crooked Eye,
The Slits,
The Misunderstood,
Terrestrial Tones,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Young Rascals,
Grandmaster Flash,
Andrew Hill,
Colin Newman,
Neu!,
Pagans,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Zeros,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Nick Fraelich,
Echospace,
Clear Light,
Arthur Verocai,
Jawbox,
Gregory Isaacs,
Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci, Danielle Patucci.
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.