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 Gabon and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 oboe 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 Bobby Sherman to the grime 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 The Golliwogs. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
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,
Iggy Pop,
Sam Rivers,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
kango's stein massive,
Albert Ayler,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Qualms,
The Busters,
Carl Craig,
Todd Terry,
The Velvet Underground,
Sonny Sharrock,
Warsaw,
Audionom,
The Monks,
Slick Rick,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Count Five,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bluetip,
Agent Orange,
Robert Görl,
Swell Maps,
The Doobie Brothers,
Skaos,
Oblivians,
T. Rex,
Desert Stars,
Simply Red,
Scientists,
Altered Images,
Bush Tetras,
Deakin,
Youth Brigade,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rotary Connection,
Livin' Joy,
Magma,
Soulsonic Force,
Johnny Osbourne,
Symarip,
Ronan,
The Blues Magoos,
Con Funk Shun,
Outsiders,
The Divine Comedy,
Babytalk,
Cecil Taylor,
Crime,
Erasure,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minnie Riperton,
Sparks,
June Days,
Archie Shepp,
The Mummies,
Kas Product,
Fela Kuti,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.