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 Uzbekistan and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 clarinet 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 The Five Americans to the rap 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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a 808 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 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
Kevin Saunderson,
Second Layer,
Urselle,
Kenny Larkin,
Joey Negro,
Sarah Menescal,
Matthew Bourne,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Brand Nubian,
These Immortal Souls,
Mars,
Outsiders,
Alison Limerick,
Television,
JFA,
John Coltrane,
Susan Cadogan,
The Stooges,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The United States of America,
Khruangbin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Modern Lovers,
Alphaville,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Amon Düül II,
The Remains,
Metal Thangz,
Lucky Dragons,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Theoretical Girls,
Jacob Miller,
Marshall Jefferson,
Intrusion,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sex Pistols,
Mantronix,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
James White and The Blacks,
Royal Trux,
Dark Day,
Pylon,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cluster,
The Searchers,
Adolescents,
Arcadia,
Soft Cell,
Make Up,
Ituana,
Cameo,
Chris & Cosey,
Massinfluence,
The Associates,
Gang Green,
Roy Ayers,
Donald Byrd,
T.S.O.L.,
Judy Mowatt,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.