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 Guinea and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Maurizio to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 In Retrospect. All the underground hits.
All Agitation Free tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an oboe and a clarinet 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 arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Technova,
Silicon Teens,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rakim,
Steve Hackett,
Pantytec,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Susan Cadogan,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Simply Red,
Delta 5,
Circle Jerks,
Tomorrow,
Roxy Music,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Metal Thangz,
The Pretty Things,
Bill Near,
Outsiders,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Toni Rubio,
Minny Pops,
Public Enemy,
Scrapy,
Scratch Acid,
Wally Richardson,
The Mojo Men,
Lebanon Hanover,
Neil Young,
Cybotron,
Roxette,
Roger Hodgson,
AZ,
cv313,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Porter Ricks,
OOIOO,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
David Axelrod,
In Retrospect,
Graham Central Station,
The Fuzztones,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Amon Düül II,
Make Up,
Lungfish,
Erasure,
Lalann,
Neu!,
Gang of Four,
The J.B.'s,
Slick Rick,
Reuben Wilson,
Bluetip,
Laurel Aitken,
The Gladiators,
Funkadelic,
The Star Department,
The Zeros,
Youth Brigade,
Absolute Body Control,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.