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 Nicaragua and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Eric Dolphy to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All Fat Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord 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 spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Toasters,
Q and Not U,
Ornette Coleman,
Donald Byrd,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kool Moe Dee,
China Crisis,
Gong,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Walker Brothers,
Glenn Branca,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Japan,
Eric Dolphy,
Dorothy Ashby,
Rosa Yemen,
Average White Band,
Ronnie Foster,
The Neon Judgement,
Buzzcocks,
Bobby Sherman,
Little Man,
Scion,
Max Romeo,
Joey Negro,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stetsasonic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Jerry's Kids,
Ituana,
Von Mondo,
The Flesh Eaters,
Negative Approach,
Prince Buster,
Roxy Music,
Thee Headcoats,
Mission of Burma,
The Victims,
Brick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Flipper,
the Association,
Al Stewart,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Pretty Things,
Arthur Verocai,
Kerrie Biddell,
U.S. Maple,
Bang On A Can,
The Moleskins,
CMW,
Byron Stingily,
The Mojo Men,
The Divine Comedy,
Blancmange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeff Lynne,
The Star Department,
Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell, Rod Modell.
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.