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 South Sudan and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soul Sonic Force to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Eve St. Jones. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
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,
Soft Machine,
Alphaville,
Jandek,
Warsaw,
Sparks,
The Angels of Light,
Ralphi Rosario,
Aswad,
Ten City,
Section 25,
Rod Modell,
Lower 48,
The Fortunes,
Michelle Simonal,
Mad Mike,
Gabor Szabo,
Lalann,
Livin' Joy,
The Techniques,
Maleditus Sound,
Boredoms,
The Busters,
Laurel Aitken,
Wolf Eyes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Oneida,
PIL,
Vladislav Delay,
Icehouse,
Lakeside,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims,
Lou Christie,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Supertramp,
John Holt,
Pussy Galore,
Masters at Work,
Schoolly D,
Bootsy Collins,
Ice-T,
Accadde A,
The Mighty Diamonds,
John Cale,
EPMD,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Fugazi,
Electric Prunes,
Joe Smooth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Slits,
Robert Wyatt,
The Red Krayola,
Jerry's Kids,
MC5,
The Residents,
Outsiders,
Nick Fraelich,
The Sisters of Mercy,
the Association,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.