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 Taiwan and from Mexico City.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Jesper Dahlback to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Boogie Down Productions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Byrd record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cal Tjader,
Arcadia,
Curtis Mayfield,
48th St. Collective,
Alison Limerick,
Spandau Ballet,
The Velvet Underground,
Heaven 17,
Magazine,
the Sonics,
Thee Headcoats,
John Lydon,
Aaron Thompson,
Guru Guru,
Thompson Twins,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sound Behaviour,
Agitation Free,
The Wake,
Bauhaus,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Dennis Brown,
The Sonics,
Skarface,
The Kinks,
Soft Cell,
Section 25,
Metal Thangz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ossler,
Kerrie Biddell,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Subhumans,
Au Pairs,
Q65,
The Slits,
Danielle Patucci,
The J.B.'s,
Accadde A,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Chrome,
X-Ray Spex,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Evens,
Circle Jerks,
Hardrive,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Fortunes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Unrelated Segments,
Lightning Bolt,
Johnny Osbourne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Stooges,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Byron Stingily,
Royal Trux,
Michelle Simonal,
Soulsonic Force,
Traffic Nightmare,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Leaves,
Procol Harum,
Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip, Bluetip.
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.