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 New Zealand and from Spokane.
But I was there.

I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Johannesburg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Hardrive 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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.

All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scion 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.

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

But have you seen my records?

Crispy Ambulance, Blake Baxter, The Leaves, the Association, Gastr Del Sol, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Lou Reed, Joe Smooth, Johnny Clarke, Intrusion, Vladislav Delay, Flash Fearless, Lalann, Arthur Verocai, David Axelrod, Deadbeat, The Dead C, Nick Fraelich, Cecil Taylor, the Germs, Crooked Eye, Tommy Roe, The Last Poets, Tom Boy, Suicide, Sällskapet, Fort Wilson Riot, Andrew Hill, Gregory Isaacs, Ken Boothe, Dark Day, the Human League, David Bowie, The Invisible, John Lydon, Cybotron, Soul II Soul, The Fugs, Liaisons Dangereuses, Cheater Slicks, Dual Sessions, Q and Not U, The Doors, John Cale, Public Image Ltd., The Buckinghams, Radiopuhelimet, Al Stewart, Pierre Henry, The Fuzztones, Unwound, Jawbox, Excepter, Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Siouxsie and the Banshees, Boz Scaggs, Loose Ends, Lee Hazlewood, Don Cherry, Derrick May, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.

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)