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 Kyrgyzstan and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Magazine to the punk 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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Skarface tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
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,
Mandrill,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ohio Players,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sister Nancy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Deadbeat,
Fluxion,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Tremeloes,
The Human League,
Tommy Roe,
Grauzone,
Cluster,
Angry Samoans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Vainqueur,
Absolute Body Control,
Harpers Bizarre,
Khruangbin,
The Pop Group,
Smog,
Donny Hathaway,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bootsy Collins,
Drexciya,
Ronan,
The Modern Lovers,
Warren Ellis,
The Moleskins,
Man Eating Sloth,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
L. Decosne,
The Zeros,
Iggy Pop,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Franke,
Swans,
Nils Olav,
LL Cool J,
David McCallum,
The Fire Engines,
The Pretty Things,
The Birthday Party,
Deepchord,
Surgeon,
Stockholm Monsters,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
The Moody Blues,
Lightning Bolt,
Pierre Henry,
Fela Kuti,
Sugar Minott,
Sun Ra,
Glambeats Corp.,
Shuggie Otis,
The Wake,
Con Funk Shun,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.