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 South Sudan and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the marimba 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 June of 44 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Soul Sonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator 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 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Funkadelic,
Bobby Sherman,
The Velvet Underground,
The Motions,
Barbara Tucker,
Oblivians,
Mantronix,
Moby Grape,
Scion,
10cc,
Eve St. Jones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
UT,
Tropical Tobacco,
Monolake,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eurythmics,
Todd Terry,
X-101,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Mary Jane Girls,
Morten Harket,
Motorama,
Negative Approach,
World's Most,
Robert Wyatt,
Blancmange,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Real Kids,
The Sonics,
Grey Daturas,
Pere Ubu,
The Golliwogs,
Robert Hood,
New Order,
Gichy Dan,
The Litter,
The New Christs,
Second Layer,
Q65,
The J.B.'s,
Stereo Dub,
Cybotron,
The Buckinghams,
Underground Resistance,
Neil Young,
CMW,
Tom Boy,
The Victims,
Zapp,
Gang of Four,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Fad Gadget,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Peter and Kerry,
Ludus,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.