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 Ireland and from Lille.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 marimba 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 The Techniques to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Absolute Body Control record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ten City,
Gabor Szabo,
Joey Negro,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Scion,
EPMD,
The Monks,
PIL,
Godley & Creme,
Ice-T,
Average White Band,
The Sound,
Juan Atkins,
Davy DMX,
Massinfluence,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
the Bar-Kays,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Wake,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Blancmange,
Derrick Morgan,
Thompson Twins,
Jeru the Damaja,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Agent Orange,
Liliput,
Con Funk Shun,
Erykah Badu,
Subhumans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Red Krayola,
Barclay James Harvest,
E-Dancer,
UT,
Black Flag,
The Velvet Underground,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Residents,
The Doobie Brothers,
Swans,
Ossler,
Joe Finger,
Quantec,
The Flesh Eaters,
T. Rex,
Anthony Braxton,
Tubeway Army,
cv313,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kerrie Biddell,
Yazoo,
Arcadia,
The Human League,
Nirvana,
Erasure,
Quadrant,
Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth, Wasted Youth.
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.