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 Bangladesh and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Gories to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Alton Ellis. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minnie Riperton 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a guitar 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 organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
UT,
Maurizio,
Radiohead,
Black Sheep,
The Leaves,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Sam Rivers,
Television Personalities,
Janne Schatter,
The Human League,
Arthur Verocai,
Royal Trux,
Chrome,
China Crisis,
The Zeros,
Piero Umiliani,
La Düsseldorf,
Ultra Naté,
Ornette Coleman,
Deepchord,
Lyres,
Section 25,
Bobby Byrd,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Smiths,
Ken Boothe,
Sound Behaviour,
Moss Icon,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Gories,
The Invisible,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Shuggie Otis,
Darondo,
The Monochrome Set,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Peter & Gordon,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Grey Daturas,
Banda Bassotti,
Brand Nubian,
Kaleidoscope,
Excepter,
Quando Quango,
Mark Hollis,
Lou Christie,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Siglo XX,
Radiopuhelimet,
48th St. Collective,
The Stooges,
Michelle Simonal,
Yellowson,
Yazoo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Soft Machine,
X-102,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet, Sällskapet.
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.