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 Argentina and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1962 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Beau Brummels to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bootsy's Rubber Band. All the underground hits.
All Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sound,
Audionom,
Khruangbin,
John Cale,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Bob Dylan,
The Offenders,
The Kinks,
The Moody Blues,
Saccharine Trust,
Section 25,
Duran Duran,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
PIL,
Brass Construction,
Ultra Naté,
Dorothy Ashby,
Yellowson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wasted Youth,
Prince Buster,
The Names,
Bizarre Inc.,
Anthony Braxton,
The Slackers,
Black Bananas,
The Count Five,
Scratch Acid,
Excepter,
Suburban Knight,
Brick,
DJ Style,
Kas Product,
Mantronix,
Oneida,
Eddi Front,
Crime,
Flamin' Groovies,
Rotary Connection,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Newcleus,
Rekid,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sight & Sound,
cv313,
John Coltrane,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mr. Review,
Kenny Larkin,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bauhaus,
The Monks,
Bang On A Can,
X-102,
Judy Mowatt,
Niagra,
Lindisfarne,
Royal Trux,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Barclay James Harvest,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.