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 Kenya and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Max Romeo to the punk 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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bootsy Collins,
Pierre Henry,
The Durutti Column,
D'Angelo,
The Happenings,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Scrapy,
Eli Mardock,
Audionom,
Moby Grape,
Von Mondo,
Excepter,
Gang Green,
Zero Boys,
Ken Boothe,
Roxette,
Popol Vuh,
Goldenarms,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Music Machine,
Pantaleimon,
Simply Red,
Mandrill,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Eric Dolphy,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Sound,
Flipper,
Smog,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Clarke,
Lindisfarne,
Ten City,
the Normal,
Bob Dylan,
Stetsasonic,
Maleditus Sound,
June Days,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Malaria!,
Adolescents,
Sparks,
David McCallum,
Theoretical Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Vladislav Delay,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dual Sessions,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Deepchord,
World's Most,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hashim,
Derrick Morgan,
Slave,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Black Dice,
Pole,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.