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 United Kingdom and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Neon Judgement to the rock 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 Dark Day. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every A Flock of Seagulls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 marimba and a rhodes 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 rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Television Personalities,
The Fall,
Bronski Beat,
Can,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Hardrive,
Laurel Aitken,
Rapeman,
Dual Sessions,
Glenn Branca,
Sight & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bang On A Can,
Public Enemy,
Scrapy,
Rufus Thomas,
Unrelated Segments,
Reagan Youth,
Gregory Isaacs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ohio Players,
Qualms,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Rosa Yemen,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Gastr Del Sol,
X-102,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Last Poets,
The Modern Lovers,
The Blackbyrds,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Black Dice,
The Divine Comedy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ponytail,
The Dave Clark Five,
Sugar Minott,
Lindisfarne,
Robert Wyatt,
Rakim,
Tropical Tobacco,
New Age Steppers,
Agitation Free,
Harmonia,
The Young Rascals,
Sex Pistols,
JFA,
Jeff Lynne,
Jimmy McGriff,
June Days,
Boredoms,
China Crisis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.
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.