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 Angola and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Durutti Column to the grunge 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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar 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 synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Al Stewart,
Easy Going,
The Evens,
Flash Fearless,
Frankie Knuckles,
Dual Sessions,
Fad Gadget,
Soft Cell,
The Invisible,
Niagra,
The United States of America,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
AZ,
Harmonia,
Leonard Cohen,
Faust,
June Days,
Zero Boys,
The Music Machine,
The Moody Blues,
Anthony Braxton,
Panda Bear,
Mars,
Aaron Thompson,
The Martian,
Bronski Beat,
Mo-Dettes,
The Mighty Diamonds,
R.M.O.,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
David Bowie,
Scientists,
Arthur Verocai,
Joy Division,
Hardrive,
Bauhaus,
Cheater Slicks,
Absolute Body Control,
Peter & Gordon,
Ultra Naté,
Dead Boys,
The Divine Comedy,
Magazine,
ABC,
Skaos,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bill Near,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chrome,
Sight & Sound,
Fear,
The Knickerbockers,
Bush Tetras,
Shuggie Otis,
Cecil Taylor,
Stereo Dub,
The Standells,
Tropical Tobacco,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Tears for Fears,
Derrick Morgan,
Althea and Donna,
David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum, David McCallum.
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.