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 Albania and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb 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 Boredoms to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Supertramp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Reed record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
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,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jacob Miller,
Drive Like Jehu,
Big Daddy Kane,
Funkadelic,
Kayak,
Grauzone,
a-ha,
The Five Americans,
Shoche,
The Kinks,
Little Man,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Kerri Chandler,
The Victims,
Silicon Teens,
Johnny Clarke,
Maurizio,
Basic Channel,
Echospace,
Marmalade,
Marvin Gaye,
Alison Limerick,
The Moleskins,
The Fuzztones,
The Evens,
The Grass Roots,
Clear Light,
Unwound,
Siglo XX,
Don Cherry,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Japan,
MC5,
Patti Smith,
DJ Style,
Deadbeat,
Sight & Sound,
The Gun Club,
Bad Manners,
Wally Richardson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sarah Menescal,
Albert Ayler,
Man Parrish,
Grey Daturas,
Iggy Pop,
Model 500,
The Move,
Los Fastidios,
This Heat,
Boz Scaggs,
Michelle Simonal,
Chrome,
Donny Hathaway,
La Düsseldorf,
Nirvana,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.