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 Nepal and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the sitar 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 Electric Prunes to the rock 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 Prince Buster. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare 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 harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agent Orange,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Fuzztones,
KRS-One,
Television Personalities,
Susan Cadogan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crash Course in Science,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Searchers,
Joy Division,
Dennis Brown,
Boogie Down Productions,
Television,
Kevin Saunderson,
Subhumans,
Procol Harum,
Groovy Waters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Animal Collective,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The American Breed,
Drexciya,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Residents,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Pere Ubu,
Derrick May,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Victims,
Letta Mbulu,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Vogues,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Faust,
The Gories,
Bobby Sherman,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Black Pus,
The Invisible,
Juan Atkins,
Grauzone,
48th St. Collective,
Mantronix,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Swans,
Morten Harket,
Average White Band,
Nils Olav,
Skaos,
Chris & Cosey,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Erasure,
Nas,
Los Fastidios,
MDC,
Theoretical Girls,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Toasters,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.