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 Mauritius and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the rap 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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ 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 organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Half Japanese,
Eric Copeland,
The Standells,
Rakim,
Neil Young,
The Fire Engines,
Cal Tjader,
Grey Daturas,
Steve Hackett,
The Buckinghams,
Brothers Johnson,
Rapeman,
Gang Starr,
Trumans Water,
June Days,
Animal Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Girls At Our Best!,
Basic Channel,
The Barracudas,
Y Pants,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Metal Thangz,
Laurel Aitken,
Boredoms,
Charles Mingus,
Model 500,
Mars,
Brass Construction,
The Golliwogs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Leonard Cohen,
Adolescents,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ohio Players,
Schoolly D,
Byron Stingily,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Main Source,
The Leaves,
Groovy Waters,
Young Marble Giants,
Kerrie Biddell,
Country Teasers,
Joe Finger,
Rufus Thomas,
Eve St. Jones,
The Smiths,
The Searchers,
The Wake,
Technova,
Sparks,
Dead Boys,
The Monks,
David Axelrod,
Siglo XX,
Hasil Adkins,
Delta 5,
the Sonics,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.