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 Sweden and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Paris.
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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
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 Outsiders to the grunge 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 Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every La Düsseldorf record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 güiro and a clarinet 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 a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Kurtis Blow,
Guru Guru,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bill Near,
Sister Nancy,
Eric Copeland,
Ponytail,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Barry Ungar,
Drive Like Jehu,
Quadrant,
R.M.O.,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Lalo Schifrin,
Howard Jones,
The Gap Band,
Sarah Menescal,
The Gories,
Minnie Riperton,
Tomorrow,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Gang Starr,
The Techniques,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Maurizio,
Faust,
ABC,
Gregory Isaacs,
Youth Brigade,
Letta Mbulu,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Jimmy McGriff,
Henry Cow,
Arthur Verocai,
Magazine,
Jerry's Kids,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Robert Görl,
Altered Images,
Bobby Hutcherson,
the Human League,
Ultra Naté,
The Barracudas,
The Move,
Boredoms,
The Motions,
Circle Jerks,
Audionom,
Negative Approach,
Harry Pussy,
Laurel Aitken,
Accadde A,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gastr Del Sol,
X-101,
Severed Heads,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Ronnie Foster,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
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.