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 India and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Khruangbin to the rock 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 The Associates. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Panda Bear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Deakin,
Suburban Knight,
Eric Dolphy,
Andrew Hill,
kango's stein massive,
Mantronix,
The Blues Magoos,
Wasted Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Arthur Verocai,
Alphaville,
Crash Course in Science,
The Kinks,
Idris Muhammad,
Ohio Players,
Todd Rundgren,
Model 500,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Tres Demented,
Al Stewart,
Masters at Work,
The New Christs,
Boredoms,
Malaria!,
Stiv Bators,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Josef K,
Bang On A Can,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Joy Division,
Scott Walker,
The Move,
Sound Behaviour,
Quando Quango,
Ituana,
The Selecter,
Alison Limerick,
The Evens,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cluster,
a-ha,
The Residents,
Marshall Jefferson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Index,
Joey Negro,
Howard Jones,
The Techniques,
Archie Shepp,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nick Fraelich,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang Gang Dance,
ABC,
The Velvet Underground,
Adolescents,
Cybotron,
Godley & Creme,
Terrestrial Tones,
Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders, Pharoah Sanders.
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.