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 Denmark and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the snare 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 Loose Ends to the rap 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 Idris Muhammad. All the underground hits.
All Saccharine Trust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Subhumans 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a harpsichord 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 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Con Funk Shun,
Easy Going,
Depeche Mode,
Big Daddy Kane,
Interpol,
The American Breed,
Bootsy Collins,
Ultimate Spinach,
Soul II Soul,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Music Machine,
Sixth Finger,
Chris & Cosey,
Panda Bear,
Japan,
Althea and Donna,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Lalann,
Jimmy McGriff,
Subhumans,
The Slackers,
Minny Pops,
Rekid,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fire Engines,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Charles Mingus,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Babytalk,
Rufus Thomas,
David McCallum,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Siglo XX,
Lightning Bolt,
June Days,
Gabor Szabo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fad Gadget,
The Evens,
The Young Rascals,
Porter Ricks,
The Moody Blues,
The Knickerbockers,
Make Up,
Lebanon Hanover,
Schoolly D,
Robert Görl,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cluster,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Icehouse,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Clear Light,
Zapp,
Johnny Osbourne,
Camberwell Now,
Shuggie Otis,
X-Ray Spex,
Delta 5,
Ronan,
The Misunderstood,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.