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 Azerbaijan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Ice-T to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All The Pop Group tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
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,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Detroit Cobras,
Althea and Donna,
Rekid,
Don Cherry,
Moebius,
The Electric Prunes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rites of Spring,
Los Fastidios,
Radio Birdman,
Kurtis Blow,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Sound Behaviour,
Danielle Patucci,
Model 500,
Tommy Roe,
Barbara Tucker,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soulsonic Force,
the Association,
The Black Dice,
Anakelly,
Joyce Sims,
One Last Wish,
Patti Smith,
Ralphi Rosario,
Theoretical Girls,
The Busters,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Depeche Mode,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Gil Scott Heron,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Fear,
Marc Almond,
The Techniques,
Bootsy Collins,
Neu!,
Tears for Fears,
Jimmy McGriff,
Nirvana,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Wyatt,
Nation of Ulysses,
Audionom,
The Dead C,
Ken Boothe,
T.S.O.L.,
Warren Ellis,
EPMD,
Letta Mbulu,
Simply Red,
Marvin Gaye,
Oblivians,
Shuggie Otis,
Fugazi,
Harmonia,
The Residents,
Pagans,
Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick, Slick Rick.
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.