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 Morocco and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 the Association to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Hardrive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Oneida,
The Buckinghams,
Wally Richardson,
Mission of Burma,
Black Moon,
Althea and Donna,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donald Byrd,
Amazonics,
Dennis Brown,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Supertramp,
Iggy Pop,
Agitation Free,
Amon Düül II,
Magazine,
Flash Fearless,
The Fuzztones,
Stiv Bators,
The Standells,
Stereo Dub,
Sonic Youth,
E-Dancer,
Suicide,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sällskapet,
Robert Hood,
Bronski Beat,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Cameo,
Nils Olav,
Jeff Mills,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
X-Ray Spex,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eddi Front,
Outsiders,
The United States of America,
Porter Ricks,
The Golliwogs,
Pylon,
Slick Rick,
Marvin Gaye,
Depeche Mode,
Brass Construction,
Danielle Patucci,
Dual Sessions,
The Knickerbockers,
John Holt,
Inner City,
Average White Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
L. Decosne,
Frankie Knuckles,
Simply Red,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Jawbox,
Mark Hollis,
Roxette,
Angry Samoans,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.