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 Nigeria and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Ten City to the jazz 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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All MDC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro 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 spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Second Layer,
Funkadelic,
Soft Cell,
MDC,
Section 25,
Donald Byrd,
Sonic Youth,
the Fania All-Stars,
Boogie Down Productions,
Monks,
James White and The Blacks,
Fugazi,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Roy Ayers,
Desert Stars,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Panda Bear,
Skarface,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sixth Finger,
Funky Four + One,
Al Stewart,
Davy DMX,
Massinfluence,
The Moody Blues,
Infiniti,
Johnny Osbourne,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blossom Toes,
Matthew Halsall,
Warren Ellis,
Oblivians,
Rapeman,
Mandrill,
The Mummies,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Buzzcocks,
New York Dolls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Joensuu 1685,
The Star Department,
The Velvet Underground,
Make Up,
Todd Terry,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tears for Fears,
Hasil Adkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nick Fraelich,
Icehouse,
Kas Product,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Kinks,
The Golliwogs,
Donny Hathaway,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.