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 Greece and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Salvador and Lagos.
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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Alphaville to the punk 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 Shuggie Otis. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Goldenarms record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe 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,
Brass Construction,
Sonic Youth,
Ronan,
Goldenarms,
The Electric Prunes,
Ultra Naté,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ossler,
Black Flag,
The Moleskins,
Carl Craig,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Stiv Bators,
Public Image Ltd.,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bill Near,
Reagan Youth,
the Association,
Q and Not U,
Funkadelic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Prince Buster,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nirvana,
D'Angelo,
Franke,
Babytalk,
Chris Corsano,
Liliput,
Urselle,
Robert Görl,
Jimmy McGriff,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Young Marble Giants,
Underground Resistance,
Supertramp,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lee Hazlewood,
F. McDonald,
The Busters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rosa Yemen,
Loose Ends,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Monochrome Set,
48th St. Collective,
Todd Rundgren,
MDC,
Pylon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Moss Icon,
Chrome,
Simply Red,
DJ Style,
Mandrill,
The Red Krayola,
Audionom,
James White and The Blacks,
Don Cherry,
The Smiths,
Accadde A,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.