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 Guatemala and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Manchester.
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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Unwound to the grime kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bad Manners. All the underground hits.
All Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 spring reverb and an arpeggiator 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 oboe and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Masters at Work,
KRS-One,
Girls At Our Best!,
Howard Jones,
Kerri Chandler,
Wire,
Erasure,
the Fania All-Stars,
Porter Ricks,
Malaria!,
Sarah Menescal,
Shoche,
Bauhaus,
D'Angelo,
Suburban Knight,
Anthony Braxton,
Warren Ellis,
Gang Starr,
Lungfish,
The Seeds,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Tremeloes,
Joe Smooth,
Skriet,
Matthew Halsall,
Absolute Body Control,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rod Modell,
World's Most,
Todd Rundgren,
Jerry's Kids,
Tres Demented,
ABC,
Judy Mowatt,
Theoretical Girls,
Bobby Womack,
The Monochrome Set,
The Blues Magoos,
Alphaville,
Circle Jerks,
Joe Finger,
Aaron Thompson,
Black Bananas,
Banda Bassotti,
Janne Schatter,
Mission of Burma,
Index,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Grass Roots,
Isaac Hayes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
OOIOO,
John Cale,
Mo-Dettes,
The Birthday Party,
Television Personalities,
Eric Dolphy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.