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 Honduras and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Juan Atkins to the techno 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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Porter Ricks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soft Cell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bang On A Can,
Anthony Braxton,
Ralphi Rosario,
Cybotron,
The Names,
Dennis Brown,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Glenn Branca,
Fad Gadget,
Procol Harum,
Susan Cadogan,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Saints,
Moss Icon,
The Human League,
Massinfluence,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Amazonics,
Q and Not U,
The Selecter,
The Knickerbockers,
Gong,
Crooked Eye,
Shoche,
The Evens,
Joensuu 1685,
Sugar Minott,
the Germs,
Eden Ahbez,
Michelle Simonal,
Tres Demented,
Altered Images,
Junior Murvin,
The Shadows of Knight,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kaleidoscope,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sly & The Family Stone,
F. McDonald,
Pantytec,
Flamin' Groovies,
Girls At Our Best!,
Eric B and Rakim,
A Certain Ratio,
Popol Vuh,
Sixth Finger,
Joey Negro,
Cluster,
Bad Manners,
Fela Kuti,
Donald Byrd,
The Offenders,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Marcia Griffiths,
Moby Grape,
Dawn Penn,
Pagans,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.