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 Iceland and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tom Boy. All the underground hits.
All Television tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crime record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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,
Ultimate Spinach,
Altered Images,
Organ,
Youth Brigade,
Mantronix,
Porter Ricks,
Fear,
Ultravox,
Grey Daturas,
Siglo XX,
Sonic Youth,
Parry Music,
Simply Red,
Soft Cell,
The Vogues,
the Sonics,
Suburban Knight,
Black Sheep,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
FM Einheit,
Skaos,
Connie Case,
Andrew Hill,
Aural Exciters,
John Lydon,
MDC,
Easy Going,
Alphaville,
Girls At Our Best!,
Hardrive,
Deepchord,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Toasters,
Agitation Free,
Kayak,
Flash Fearless,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Fraelich,
Jeru the Damaja,
Minor Threat,
Black Pus,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Godley & Creme,
Lyres,
Fela Kuti,
Henry Cow,
Peter & Gordon,
EPMD,
Fatback Band,
Anthony Braxton,
June of 44,
New Order,
Von Mondo,
Lakeside,
The Residents,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Adolescents,
Bang On A Can,
Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths, Marcia Griffiths.
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.