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 Kosovo and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 CMW to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 F. McDonald. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes 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 clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet 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 Human League,
Lightning Bolt,
Lower 48,
Warsaw,
Kerrie Biddell,
Michelle Simonal,
Main Source,
Circle Jerks,
Ornette Coleman,
Godley & Creme,
Shuggie Otis,
Judy Mowatt,
Robert Hood,
Joe Smooth,
Mars,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Soulsonic Force,
Derrick Morgan,
Youth Brigade,
The Names,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skriet,
Quando Quango,
Peter and Kerry,
Popol Vuh,
Laurel Aitken,
Susan Cadogan,
Rosa Yemen,
Vainqueur,
kango's stein massive,
Japan,
Arcadia,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Nils Olav,
Sugar Minott,
Public Enemy,
Desert Stars,
Blossom Toes,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Groovy Waters,
Schoolly D,
The Skatalites,
Eden Ahbez,
Lalo Schifrin,
the Swans,
The Victims,
Los Fastidios,
The Dead C,
Charles Mingus,
Ronnie Foster,
Bauhaus,
Brass Construction,
Albert Ayler,
Idris Muhammad,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jeff Mills,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Y Pants,
Matthew Bourne,
Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work, Masters at Work.
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.