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 Azerbaijan and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Boz Scaggs to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All The Invisible tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator 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 spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Saccharine Trust,
Barclay James Harvest,
Masters at Work,
Half Japanese,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Byron Stingily,
Ponytail,
Stockholm Monsters,
Circle Jerks,
Cheater Slicks,
Brick,
The Fugs,
Camberwell Now,
The Birthday Party,
The Monochrome Set,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Dawn Penn,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Hashim,
Television,
Tomorrow,
Black Bananas,
Lower 48,
Bootsy Collins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Morten Harket,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Gun Club,
Alison Limerick,
Moby Grape,
Das Ding,
The Moody Blues,
Hasil Adkins,
Toni Rubio,
Wally Richardson,
The Music Machine,
New Order,
Moss Icon,
Rufus Thomas,
Nils Olav,
Lucky Dragons,
Babytalk,
The Blackbyrds,
The Toasters,
MC5,
Hardrive,
The Residents,
Janne Schatter,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bobby Sherman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ralphi Rosario,
Junior Murvin,
The Fortunes,
Nico,
David Bowie,
Dark Day,
The Seeds,
Roger Hodgson,
Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd.
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.