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 Honduras and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Woodstock.
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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Smoke to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All The United States of America tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a harpsichord 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bob Dylan,
Smog,
Cheater Slicks,
Franke,
Bobby Womack,
Mad Mike,
The Durutti Column,
Michelle Simonal,
The Neon Judgement,
Josef K,
Roy Ayers,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
ABC,
Banda Bassotti,
The Raincoats,
The American Breed,
The Monochrome Set,
Talk Talk,
The Mummies,
The Vogues,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gladiators,
One Last Wish,
Pantaleimon,
Sarah Menescal,
Lalo Schifrin,
Iggy Pop,
Lalann,
Joensuu 1685,
Animal Collective,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Magma,
Funkadelic,
Surgeon,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Modern Lovers,
T.S.O.L.,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Zero Boys,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Stooges,
Barbara Tucker,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Quadrant,
Blossom Toes,
The Slits,
Bobby Sherman,
Fluxion,
The Fugs,
The Blackbyrds,
Slick Rick,
Stiv Bators,
The Standells,
Ultravox,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Five Americans,
The Moleskins,
Sam Rivers,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.