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 Tuvalu and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the sitar 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 Gang of Four to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Johnny Osbourne. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
FM Einheit,
Ken Boothe,
The Motions,
The Doors,
Wally Richardson,
Maleditus Sound,
Pylon,
the Normal,
Kenny Larkin,
Interpol,
Max Romeo,
Lou Christie,
Trumans Water,
Aloha Tigers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lebanon Hanover,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Camouflage,
The Dead C,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed,
Kas Product,
Flash Fearless,
the Swans,
Absolute Body Control,
Zero Boys,
Au Pairs,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Black Moon,
The Gap Band,
The Index,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Glambeats Corp.,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cowsills,
Lalann,
The Trojans,
The Dave Clark Five,
Liliput,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lungfish,
Crime,
Country Teasers,
Bronski Beat,
OOIOO,
The Alarm Clocks,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Blues Magoos,
Ultravox,
Mr. Review,
Brick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Litter,
Second Layer,
Shuggie Otis,
Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet, Faraquet.
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.