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 Lyon.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Youth Brigade to the dance 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Tremeloes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
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,
Excepter,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Neu!,
Andrew Hill,
Supertramp,
Fluxion,
Althea and Donna,
Ludus,
Sällskapet,
Average White Band,
Chrome,
Roxette,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Marc Almond,
Archie Shepp,
Tim Buckley,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Selecter,
Yaz,
Rod Modell,
Agitation Free,
Sam Rivers,
The Black Dice,
Al Stewart,
Tomorrow,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Robert Wyatt,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Television Personalities,
Max Romeo,
Ultravox,
Youth Brigade,
X-102,
Jeru the Damaja,
Barrington Levy,
Delta 5,
CMW,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Piero Umiliani,
Con Funk Shun,
Model 500,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Bob Dylan,
the Bar-Kays,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
Anthony Braxton,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Deakin,
Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy, Eric Dolphy.
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.