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 Chile and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Spokane.
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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Associates to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Can 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an organ 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 clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Teasers,
Dennis Brown,
Nirvana,
Von Mondo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Suicide,
Laurel Aitken,
Pylon,
The Real Kids,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
EPMD,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Christie,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Circle Jerks,
The Leaves,
The Motions,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Robert Görl,
Easy Going,
Junior Murvin,
Cameo,
The Mummies,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Intrusion,
Ituana,
Surgeon,
Cheater Slicks,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Joe Smooth,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Goldenarms,
Moebius,
Gang Starr,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Interpol,
Delta 5,
Amazonics,
Alphaville,
Juan Atkins,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Slits,
Tres Demented,
The Barracudas,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Fugs,
Smog,
Technova,
Can,
Blossom Toes,
Lalo Schifrin,
Chris Corsano,
Massinfluence,
the Human League,
X-102,
Pulsallama,
Alton Ellis,
New York Dolls,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.