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 Morocco and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Fad Gadget to the punk 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 Y Pants. All the underground hits.
All Eden Ahbez tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
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,
Eric Copeland,
Lungfish,
Marmalade,
Johnny Clarke,
Agitation Free,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Adolescents,
Supertramp,
Jerry's Kids,
John Foxx,
The Angels of Light,
Eddi Front,
Nico,
Los Fastidios,
Jawbox,
The Grass Roots,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Pere Ubu,
Talk Talk,
Skaos,
Intrusion,
In Retrospect,
The Residents,
Kevin Saunderson,
Soft Cell,
Basic Channel,
Joyce Sims,
Silicon Teens,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
John Cale,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Pulsallama,
48th St. Collective,
AZ,
Derrick May,
LL Cool J,
Sister Nancy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Black Dice,
Accadde A,
The Pretty Things,
The Misunderstood,
Mandrill,
The Buckinghams,
Mars,
Dawn Penn,
Flash Fearless,
Cal Tjader,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Martian,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scott Walker,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Joy Division,
The Monochrome Set,
The Music Machine,
Scan 7,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.