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 Qatar and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro 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 Hashim to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 marimba and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ice-T,
Sarah Menescal,
Wolf Eyes,
Underground Resistance,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cure,
Matthew Bourne,
Darondo,
Technova,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Henry Cow,
Infiniti,
Saccharine Trust,
In Retrospect,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Marmalade,
The Toasters,
China Crisis,
Barry Ungar,
Hashim,
Swans,
Eden Ahbez,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Howard Jones,
Pere Ubu,
Jacob Miller,
Lee Hazlewood,
Accadde A,
DNA,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Aural Exciters,
The Grass Roots,
Nils Olav,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Divine Comedy,
Cheater Slicks,
MDC,
Suburban Knight,
OOIOO,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Donny Hathaway,
Japan,
Amon Düül II,
Ronnie Foster,
Symarip,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Visage,
Smog,
June Days,
Skarface,
Magma,
The Monks,
Flash Fearless,
Unwound,
a-ha,
Mandrill,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.