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 Thailand and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Chrome to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All The Cramps tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Piero Umiliani 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 '80s.
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 Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
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,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joe Smooth,
Goldenarms,
Ralphi Rosario,
Crispy Ambulance,
the Association,
Eden Ahbez,
Jesper Dahlback,
Danielle Patucci,
Drexciya,
Drive Like Jehu,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Hardrive,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Black Dice,
Franke,
Monolake,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dead C,
Sugar Minott,
Lindisfarne,
Stockholm Monsters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minnie Riperton,
Oneida,
Donald Byrd,
Blossom Toes,
Bluetip,
Bang On A Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Moss Icon,
Radiohead,
Ultravox,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Leaves,
Derrick Morgan,
Easy Going,
The Vogues,
Glenn Branca,
Eli Mardock,
The Sonics,
Ornette Coleman,
Stiv Bators,
Frankie Knuckles,
Alton Ellis,
The Barracudas,
Michelle Simonal,
cv313,
Sexual Harrassment,
Duran Duran,
Steve Hackett,
Lalann,
Gong,
Bauhaus,
Gang Gang Dance,
David Axelrod,
Motorama,
Ponytail,
Japan,
Spoonie Gee,
Jacob Miller,
KRS-One,
the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell, the Soft Cell.
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.