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 Ethiopia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Audionom to the rap 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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James Chance & The Contortions 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Khruangbin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Pantaleimon,
The Mummies,
Minutemen,
Cal Tjader,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barrington Levy,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Masters at Work,
Gang Starr,
Hardrive,
Urselle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Sonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
Animal Collective,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Spandau Ballet,
Don Cherry,
Eric Copeland,
Duran Duran,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Techniques,
Agitation Free,
LL Cool J,
Desert Stars,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Ronan,
Index,
Gerry Rafferty,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Hot Snakes,
Agent Orange,
Second Layer,
Absolute Body Control,
X-101,
Angry Samoans,
John Lydon,
Robert Hood,
Minnie Riperton,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Pretty Things,
the Slits,
Marvin Gaye,
Lalann,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Rakim,
Dual Sessions,
Howard Jones,
Yusef Lateef,
Sugar Minott,
Lalo Schifrin,
Nas,
Ludus,
Barclay James Harvest,
Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust, Saccharine Trust.
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.