Infinitely Losing My Edge

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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 Papua New Guinea and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Halifax and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Swans to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 The Cramps. All the underground hits.

All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.

I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.

I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.

But have you seen my records?

Blancmange, The Modern Lovers, New Order, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, La Düsseldorf, Television, Sight & Sound, Curtis Mayfield, Jacques Brel, Hot Snakes, John Coltrane, Slave, Amon Düül, The Gladiators, The Fire Engines, Crispy Ambulance, Idris Muhammad, Pet Shop Boys, Mo-Dettes, Surgeon, Robert Wyatt, 10cc, Cluster, Boz Scaggs, a-ha, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Trojans, Traffic Nightmare, Babytalk, Scott Walker, Can, Neu!, The Litter, Kevin Saunderson, AZ, The Searchers, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Ash Ra Tempel, Black Moon, Siglo XX, Nick Fraelich, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, The Fugs, Black Sheep, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Porter Ricks, Absolute Body Control, The Divine Comedy, Lee Hazlewood, Isaac Hayes, Andrew Hill, The Human League, T. Rex, Amon Düül II, Youth Brigade, Pagans, Chrome, Pulsallama, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.

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.

A hack by Matthew Ogle who is very sorry to James Murphy and basically everyone (cheers to Darius and this for the late-night inspiration)