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 Gabon and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wolf Eyes to the rock 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All Aural Exciters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Happenings 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Star Department,
Motorama,
Schoolly D,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Infiniti,
Unrelated Segments,
The Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Electric Prunes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
L. Decosne,
Livin' Joy,
Ludus,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kenny Larkin,
Wasted Youth,
Scratch Acid,
B.T. Express,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Yaz,
Can,
Nico,
Zapp,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Lindisfarne,
The Gories,
Ice-T,
The Pop Group,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Dawn Penn,
Tropical Tobacco,
Groovy Waters,
Henry Cow,
Tomorrow,
Lower 48,
Bill Near,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Supertramp,
Reagan Youth,
Fela Kuti,
Scan 7,
Animal Collective,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Grauzone,
Lightning Bolt,
The Move,
Newcleus,
Malaria!,
Masters at Work,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ken Boothe,
Lyres,
Junior Murvin,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
T. Rex,
The Fall,
Soul Sonic Force,
Davy DMX,
Dave Gahan,
Q and Not U,
KRS-One,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.