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 Montenegro and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Bill Wells to the jazz 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 Easy Going. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Prunes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a sitar 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 synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
New Age Steppers,
Whodini,
Alphaville,
Television,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Pretty Things,
Quando Quango,
Jacob Miller,
Bang On A Can,
The Selecter,
The Cosmic Jokers,
F. McDonald,
Matthew Halsall,
Yazoo,
Camberwell Now,
Fat Boys,
Ice-T,
Aloha Tigers,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Babytalk,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pantaleimon,
Delta 5,
Panda Bear,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sonic Youth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The J.B.'s,
Funkadelic,
Popol Vuh,
Essential Logic,
Warsaw,
World's Most,
Hoover,
Mo-Dettes,
The Move,
Schoolly D,
Electric Prunes,
The Monochrome Set,
Bob Dylan,
Derrick Morgan,
John Holt,
The Seeds,
Bobby Womack,
R.M.O.,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Freddie Wadling,
Country Teasers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Throbbing Gristle,
Mark Hollis,
Liliput,
Absolute Body Control,
The Knickerbockers,
Vainqueur,
Organ,
The Leaves,
kango's stein massive,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.