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 Greece and from Lyon.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Litter to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum 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 an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Slits,
Excepter,
Mars,
John Holt,
Drive Like Jehu,
Howard Jones,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nico,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Section 25,
Neil Young,
Robert Hood,
Peter and Kerry,
Pagans,
Joe Finger,
The Modern Lovers,
Maurizio,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Metal Thangz,
cv313,
Symarip,
Nils Olav,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Slits,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Cymande,
Theoretical Girls,
The Pretty Things,
The Gap Band,
Television Personalities,
The Mojo Men,
The Toasters,
The Cowsills,
Adolescents,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Roxette,
MDC,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Glenn Branca,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sandy B,
MC5,
Sonic Youth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
In Retrospect,
The Fall,
Sex Pistols,
One Last Wish,
Slave,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kayak,
Lucky Dragons,
Kevin Saunderson,
Barbara Tucker,
Fatback Band,
UT,
Eric Dolphy,
Patti Smith,
Tomorrow,
Kurtis Blow,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
ABBA, ABBA, ABBA, ABBA.
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.