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 Pakistan and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Tubeway Army to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lou Christie. All the underground hits.
All Livin' Joy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gastr Del Sol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba 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 chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mighty Diamonds,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gun Club,
Roger Hodgson,
Fugazi,
Public Enemy,
Eli Mardock,
Skriet,
Scrapy,
The Black Dice,
Ronan,
Connie Case,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Star Department,
Crime,
Flash Fearless,
Jacques Brel,
Absolute Body Control,
The Trojans,
Bluetip,
Banda Bassotti,
Masters at Work,
Q and Not U,
Archie Shepp,
Liliput,
Ken Boothe,
Radiohead,
Lower 48,
Leonard Cohen,
Stetsasonic,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Reagan Youth,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Dorothy Ashby,
Tomorrow,
The Remains,
Rotary Connection,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arcadia,
F. McDonald,
MDC,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Anthony Braxton,
Khruangbin,
Public Image Ltd.,
Cal Tjader,
Drexciya,
Kenny Larkin,
Royal Trux,
the Swans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Harry Pussy,
Bootsy Collins,
Gichy Dan,
ABBA,
Oblivians,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Hood,
The Velvet Underground,
The Dead C,
Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma, Mission of Burma.
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.