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 Peru and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Jawbox to the techno 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 Eric Copeland. All the underground hits.
All Parry Music tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Young Marble Giants,
48th St. Collective,
Skriet,
The Move,
B.T. Express,
Bad Manners,
The Cure,
Boogie Down Productions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Camouflage,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Deepchord,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ossler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Radiopuhelimet,
Derrick Morgan,
Qualms,
Banda Bassotti,
Pierre Henry,
Arcadia,
New York Dolls,
Underground Resistance,
This Heat,
The Dave Clark Five,
Iggy Pop,
The Star Department,
Ten City,
Grey Daturas,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rekid,
Das Ding,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Can,
Alton Ellis,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cowsills,
June Days,
Warsaw,
The Mighty Diamonds,
T.S.O.L.,
Eric Dolphy,
Joe Finger,
Model 500,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cramps,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
New Age Steppers,
Dawn Penn,
The Smiths,
Bobby Byrd,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Minutemen,
Vainqueur,
Shoche,
Monks,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.