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 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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Aaron Thompson to the grime 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 Cluster. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Sherman,
Babytalk,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Cowsills,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Popol Vuh,
The Walker Brothers,
Gang Gang Dance,
Crispian St. Peters,
Aural Exciters,
Radio Birdman,
Procol Harum,
Matthew Bourne,
The Saints,
Buzzcocks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Camberwell Now,
Lucky Dragons,
Sam Rivers,
T. Rex,
Faraquet,
Easy Going,
Reagan Youth,
Yazoo,
10cc,
JFA,
Scan 7,
Nik Kershaw,
The Beau Brummels,
Severed Heads,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Audionom,
Dave Gahan,
Fort Wilson Riot,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Marc Almond,
Idris Muhammad,
Dual Sessions,
Kenny Larkin,
Tubeway Army,
Flipper,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eli Mardock,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Gong,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Alice Coltrane,
Rapeman,
Reuben Wilson,
Deadbeat,
Los Fastidios,
Aaron Thompson,
The Velvet Underground,
Pylon,
Derrick Morgan,
The Index,
Todd Rundgren,
The Dirtbombs,
Oblivians,
Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk, Talk Talk.
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.