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 Switzerland and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Bootsy Collins to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Joyce Sims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Surgeon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sonic Youth,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Oneida,
Tom Boy,
Ten City,
Moebius,
Minnie Riperton,
Easy Going,
Yellowson,
Massinfluence,
Alice Coltrane,
The Martian,
Graham Central Station,
Roger Hodgson,
Scratch Acid,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Cure,
The Fuzztones,
H. Thieme,
Pylon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Barbara Tucker,
Reagan Youth,
The Last Poets,
The Golliwogs,
Quantec,
Gong,
Sandy B,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sugar Minott,
Marc Almond,
Camouflage,
Mantronix,
Pagans,
DJ Style,
Excepter,
Unrelated Segments,
Von Mondo,
Flamin' Groovies,
David McCallum,
Panda Bear,
Kenny Larkin,
Tommy Roe,
Skaos,
Pierre Henry,
Deakin,
Piero Umiliani,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Bush Tetras,
Rapeman,
Public Image Ltd.,
Quando Quango,
Amazonics,
This Heat,
The Barracudas,
The Selecter,
Ronnie Foster,
The Slackers,
Subhumans,
Bluetip,
Arthur Verocai,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap.
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.