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 Somalia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the organ 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 Arcadia to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and an oboe 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 marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
In Retrospect,
Sparks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Metal Thangz,
Joyce Sims,
Mission of Burma,
The Alarm Clocks,
Cybotron,
Bad Manners,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Cluster,
Terry Callier,
The Young Rascals,
Glambeats Corp.,
Angry Samoans,
Kerrie Biddell,
Masters at Work,
Lindisfarne,
Anthony Braxton,
The Kinks,
Peter & Gordon,
Groovy Waters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Trumans Water,
Ossler,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pussy Galore,
The Skatalites,
Gang Starr,
Los Fastidios,
Television Personalities,
LL Cool J,
Talk Talk,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Moebius,
Marine Girls,
The Neon Judgement,
Yazoo,
Stereo Dub,
Amon Düül II,
Aural Exciters,
Minor Threat,
One Last Wish,
The Vogues,
Yaz,
8 Eyed Spy,
Joe Smooth,
Popol Vuh,
Nick Fraelich,
Neil Young,
Radiohead,
Shuggie Otis,
Intrusion,
Rod Modell,
Swans,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kerri Chandler,
Pierre Henry,
Sexual Harrassment,
Anakelly,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
World's Most, World's Most, World's Most, World's Most.
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.