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 Slovakia and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Erykah Badu to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 chamberlin 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 guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Magazine,
Qualms,
Sugar Minott,
Fatback Band,
Negative Approach,
The Techniques,
Agent Orange,
The Motions,
Index,
Panda Bear,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sällskapet,
The Pretty Things,
ABBA,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Dolphy,
Aaron Thompson,
The Gories,
Talk Talk,
Nas,
Mary Jane Girls,
Funky Four + One,
Lalann,
Lee Hazlewood,
Thompson Twins,
Alice Coltrane,
Brothers Johnson,
Arab on Radar,
Monolake,
Boz Scaggs,
Funkadelic,
CMW,
The Invisible,
Radiohead,
Aloha Tigers,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gerry Rafferty,
Hot Snakes,
Newcleus,
X-101,
Joey Negro,
Gabor Szabo,
Easy Going,
Inner City,
The Velvet Underground,
Amon Düül II,
Goldenarms,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Sixth Finger,
AZ,
Morten Harket,
Man Eating Sloth,
Audionom,
Zero Boys,
Blake Baxter,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joy Division,
Make Up,
Al Stewart,
Juan Atkins,
Ituana,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.