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 Latvia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Slick Rick tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anakelly record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator 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 spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb 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 Dead C,
Lightning Bolt,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Blues Magoos,
John Holt,
Flipper,
Neil Young,
Sight & Sound,
Harry Pussy,
Cal Tjader,
Crooked Eye,
The Knickerbockers,
Dave Gahan,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Rhythm & Sound,
Section 25,
Simply Red,
H. Thieme,
cv313,
Eric Dolphy,
Tomorrow,
Sound Behaviour,
Yusef Lateef,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Gang Green,
Ultra Naté,
Fear,
Rekid,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Adolescents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gladiators,
Roxette,
Black Sheep,
Mary Jane Girls,
Schoolly D,
The Shadows of Knight,
FM Einheit,
Country Teasers,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Music Machine,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Terry Callier,
Morten Harket,
The Walker Brothers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barbara Tucker,
Mark Hollis,
Bush Tetras,
Delta 5,
Pantaleimon,
Crispy Ambulance,
Brand Nubian,
T. Rex,
Tres Demented,
Shuggie Otis,
Anakelly,
Isaac Hayes,
Maleditus Sound,
DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style, DJ Style.
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.