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 Senegal and from Manila.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Cairo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Knickerbockers to the rap 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 Standells. All the underground hits.

All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.

I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

The Young Rascals, Absolute Body Control, the Germs, Yusef Lateef, Country Joe & The Fish, Prince Buster, Young Marble Giants, Rekid, Nik Kershaw, June Days, The Sonics, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, The Litter, Magazine, The Pop Group, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Gian Franco Pienzio, Visage, Grauzone, Radiopuhelimet, Qualms, Mr. Review, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, the Association, Scratch Acid, James Chance & The Contortions, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Royal Trux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Ornette Coleman, Malaria!, Eric Dolphy, Sonny Sharrock, Sam Rivers, Basic Channel, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, The Blackbyrds, Toni Rubio, a-ha, Max Romeo, The Invisible, The Doors, Gichy Dan, Arab on Radar, Interpol, Amon Düül, Boz Scaggs, Talk Talk, La Düsseldorf, The Trojans, Panda Bear, Deakin, Piero Umiliani, Minor Threat, Scott Walker, Roxy Music, Crime, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.

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)