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 Montenegro and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the organ 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 Anakelly to the grunge 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ash Ra Tempel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin 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 mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Dorothy Ashby,
Agitation Free,
The Gun Club,
The Blues Magoos,
Dark Day,
David Axelrod,
Stockholm Monsters,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Names,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Walker Brothers,
Colin Newman,
Derrick May,
Stiv Bators,
Skarface,
The Martian,
Pantytec,
Audionom,
Motorama,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
New York Dolls,
The Leaves,
Gabor Szabo,
Matthew Bourne,
The Doors,
Kerri Chandler,
Von Mondo,
10cc,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tomorrow,
Banda Bassotti,
Ponytail,
Rotary Connection,
Quando Quango,
Maurizio,
Das Ding,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Marcia Griffiths,
Black Moon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Porter Ricks,
Aloha Tigers,
Crash Course in Science,
T.S.O.L.,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pierre Henry,
Bluetip,
Oblivians,
Wings,
The Count Five,
The Golliwogs,
Smog,
Chris & Cosey,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Sonics,
Black Bananas,
Cluster,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Cure,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.