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 Rwanda and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Birthday Party to the rock 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
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,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter and Kerry,
Roxette,
Delta 5,
The Litter,
Chris Corsano,
Dennis Brown,
Visage,
Vainqueur,
cv313,
Rufus Thomas,
Black Flag,
Radiohead,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Public Image Ltd.,
Iggy Pop,
Albert Ayler,
Clear Light,
The Selecter,
Joyce Sims,
Pole,
The Doors,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Boz Scaggs,
Gabor Szabo,
Alice Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Soft Cell,
The Skatalites,
Unwound,
The Grass Roots,
Banda Bassotti,
The Alarm Clocks,
Mo-Dettes,
Letta Mbulu,
Youth Brigade,
John Lydon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Angels of Light,
Duran Duran,
U.S. Maple,
Basic Channel,
Slick Rick,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Henry Cow,
Royal Trux,
Roger Hodgson,
Qualms,
H. Thieme,
Mary Jane Girls,
10cc,
New Age Steppers,
Niagra,
the Normal,
Stereo Dub,
Crash Course in Science,
Q and Not U,
Gregory Isaacs,
Amon Düül,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.