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 Guinea and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Idris Muhammad to the disco 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 Brand Nubian. All the underground hits.
All Eric Dolphy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siouxsie and the Banshees 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord 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 rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Unrelated Segments,
Hasil Adkins,
Surgeon,
A Certain Ratio,
The Raincoats,
Joy Division,
Dark Day,
Brand Nubian,
Hardrive,
Gang Gang Dance,
Traffic Nightmare,
Funkadelic,
Gabor Szabo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ohio Players,
Graham Central Station,
The Velvet Underground,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Seeds,
Sam Rivers,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
KRS-One,
U.S. Maple,
Bang On A Can,
L. Decosne,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gerry Rafferty,
Deakin,
Howard Jones,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Q and Not U,
Mantronix,
CMW,
Ice-T,
Patti Smith,
Average White Band,
Boz Scaggs,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Gories,
Massinfluence,
Wire,
Lightning Bolt,
Gang Green,
The Neon Judgement,
Derrick Morgan,
Franke,
Letta Mbulu,
World's Most,
Mo-Dettes,
Heaven 17,
The Slits,
The Misunderstood,
Marc Almond,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roxette,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Lucky Dragons,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.