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 Bosnia Herzegovina and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lille.
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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin 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 Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade to the techno 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 Donald Byrd. All the underground hits.
All Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Japan,
the Association,
Bob Dylan,
The Fortunes,
The Electric Prunes,
Morten Harket,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Cowsills,
The Litter,
Section 25,
Piero Umiliani,
Soulsonic Force,
The Remains,
Surgeon,
Cybotron,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deadbeat,
Little Man,
The Durutti Column,
Girls At Our Best!,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Toni Rubio,
KRS-One,
Mandrill,
Letta Mbulu,
The Vogues,
Andrew Hill,
Fugazi,
Vainqueur,
Ten City,
Marmalade,
Brothers Johnson,
Symarip,
The Standells,
Sparks,
Sällskapet,
Nation of Ulysses,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Drexciya,
AZ,
Subhumans,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
La Düsseldorf,
Delta 5,
The J.B.'s,
The Knickerbockers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Joey Negro,
Pagans,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Echospace,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
T.S.O.L.,
Nas,
Monks,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.