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 Georgia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 808 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 Cabaret Voltaire to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Grauzone. All the underground hits.
All Blossom Toes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar 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 synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nico,
Mo-Dettes,
Amon Düül II,
Ultra Naté,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash,
Radiopuhelimet,
The American Breed,
Robert Wyatt,
Quadrant,
La Düsseldorf,
Alphaville,
Brand Nubian,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Urselle,
Intrusion,
One Last Wish,
Roger Hodgson,
Johnny Osbourne,
Patti Smith,
Jacques Brel,
Bill Near,
Lakeside,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Grass Roots,
Nas,
Reagan Youth,
Quando Quango,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Spandau Ballet,
Wally Richardson,
Grauzone,
Maurizio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Black Dice,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Groovy Waters,
Quantec,
Newcleus,
The Birthday Party,
Kenny Larkin,
Dead Boys,
Dave Gahan,
Lebanon Hanover,
Steve Hackett,
Accadde A,
Skaos,
Alice Coltrane,
Don Cherry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Selecter,
Marvin Gaye,
Prince Buster,
Laurel Aitken,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Skatalites,
Scan 7,
Ronnie Foster,
the Germs, the Germs, the Germs, the Germs.
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.