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 Egypt and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Rod Modell to the grunge 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 E-Dancer. All the underground hits.
All Minnie Riperton tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cal Tjader 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
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,
ABBA,
Cecil Taylor,
The Monochrome Set,
Parry Music,
Wally Richardson,
The Litter,
Harmonia,
Sun City Girls,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Robert Wyatt,
Heaven 17,
Juan Atkins,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Model 500,
Bang On A Can,
The Seeds,
Charles Mingus,
Sun Ra,
Royal Trux,
Duran Duran,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jacques Brel,
Lalann,
kango's stein massive,
The Vogues,
Mad Mike,
The Buckinghams,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Country Joe & The Fish,
John Holt,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Pretty Things,
Alice Coltrane,
The Saints,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Anthony Braxton,
Kenny Larkin,
Donny Hathaway,
Bob Dylan,
Public Image Ltd.,
Byron Stingily,
Flash Fearless,
Spoonie Gee,
Wings,
Dave Gahan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Flipper,
Piero Umiliani,
The Red Krayola,
Fad Gadget,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Panda Bear,
Fugazi,
Kerri Chandler,
Glambeats Corp.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Carl Craig,
World's Most,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.