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 Chile and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ice-T to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pulsallama record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
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,
Yaz,
Bootsy Collins,
Metal Thangz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fuzztones,
Kurtis Blow,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lyres,
Delta 5,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sällskapet,
Panda Bear,
The Fire Engines,
Connie Case,
Vladislav Delay,
David Axelrod,
Gang Gang Dance,
Parry Music,
The Cramps,
Joe Finger,
Terry Callier,
Eric Copeland,
Flipper,
Mo-Dettes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Banda Bassotti,
Ice-T,
Pussy Galore,
Black Flag,
Cheater Slicks,
Magazine,
Tropical Tobacco,
Q and Not U,
Eric Dolphy,
The Last Poets,
Grey Daturas,
Essential Logic,
Ituana,
The Knickerbockers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Joyce Sims,
Newcleus,
Soul II Soul,
The Trojans,
The Offenders,
Jeru the Damaja,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Blossom Toes,
Terrestrial Tones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marmalade,
Marc Almond,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Moleskins,
Yellowson,
Jandek,
Siglo XX,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.