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 Tonga and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Vainqueur to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Johnny Clarke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a synthesizer 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 theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Moss Icon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Five Americans,
La Düsseldorf,
Basic Channel,
Half Japanese,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Eli Mardock,
Con Funk Shun,
Jesper Dahlback,
Maurizio,
The Victims,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Technova,
Sister Nancy,
Joyce Sims,
Tomorrow,
Sarah Menescal,
John Cale,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Human League,
Juan Atkins,
Barrington Levy,
Crooked Eye,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Skarface,
The Gap Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Man Parrish,
Brass Construction,
Make Up,
The Remains,
Lightning Bolt,
U.S. Maple,
The Gories,
Cybotron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roxette,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bill Near,
Dennis Brown,
Saccharine Trust,
The Gun Club,
The Tremeloes,
Rekid,
Section 25,
The Skatalites,
One Last Wish,
The Smiths,
the Soft Cell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Los Fastidios,
Loose Ends,
John Foxx,
Avey Tare,
Sex Pistols,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Roy Ayers,
Average White Band,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.