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 Zimbabwe and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ 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 Echo & the Bunnymen to the grime 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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Quando Quango record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe 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 snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantytec,
Rekid,
The Motions,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Sonic Youth,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Silicon Teens,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Unrelated Segments,
Malaria!,
Gang Starr,
Aural Exciters,
James White and The Blacks,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Ice-T,
Siglo XX,
the Germs,
Soulsonic Force,
The Doobie Brothers,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Average White Band,
Black Flag,
Public Image Ltd.,
Visage,
The Star Department,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Ronan,
Danielle Patucci,
The Sound,
The Golliwogs,
Delon & Dalcan,
David Bowie,
Organ,
Bootsy Collins,
The Leaves,
Marmalade,
The Cure,
The Searchers,
The Monochrome Set,
Gichy Dan,
cv313,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Tears for Fears,
The Last Poets,
T. Rex,
Aswad,
X-102,
Flamin' Groovies,
Monolake,
Pharoah Sanders,
Rhythm & Sound,
Iggy Pop,
Yusef Lateef,
The New Christs,
Kool Moe Dee,
Boredoms,
Surgeon,
Magazine,
Saccharine Trust,
The Cowsills,
Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan, Susan Cadogan.
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.