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 Thailand and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 marimba 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 Yaz to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Radiohead. All the underground hits.
All Fear tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare 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 marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gap Band,
ABBA,
The Gories,
Rekid,
The Young Rascals,
Gang Green,
Camouflage,
Amon Düül,
This Heat,
Terrestrial Tones,
Hot Snakes,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Iggy Pop,
Tubeway Army,
The Fortunes,
Magma,
Janne Schatter,
Ice-T,
Lindisfarne,
Tears for Fears,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Guru Guru,
X-Ray Spex,
The Star Department,
The Invisible,
Silicon Teens,
Amazonics,
Michelle Simonal,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joyce Sims,
New Age Steppers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Erykah Badu,
Ossler,
Simply Red,
Parry Music,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Motions,
Minor Threat,
Johnny Osbourne,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Talk Talk,
Brothers Johnson,
These Immortal Souls,
Flipper,
Laurel Aitken,
Mad Mike,
Colin Newman,
Mantronix,
The Moody Blues,
D'Angelo,
Slick Rick,
Groovy Waters,
Oblivians,
The Alarm Clocks,
In Retrospect,
Vainqueur,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Gong,
The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds, The Seeds.
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.