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 Ecuador and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.

I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Spokane and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Selector Dub Narcotic to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Moebius. All the underground hits.

All Von Mondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flamin' Groovies record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Shuggie Otis record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.

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

But have you seen my records?

Clear Light, Rekid, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Ludus, Rhythm & Sound, Camouflage, Alphaville, Jerry Gold Smith, Minutemen, The Sound, Brothers Johnson, Mary Jane Girls, Tom Boy, La Düsseldorf, Ponytail, Bronski Beat, Kevin Saunderson, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Joyce Sims, The Kinks, Slick Rick, Stereo Dub, Rotary Connection, The Barracudas, Youth Brigade, Jacob Miller, Suburban Knight, The Count Five, Sexual Harrassment, Alice Coltrane, Grey Daturas, Janne Schatter, Theoretical Girls, Throbbing Gristle, Nik Kershaw, Parry Music, Jimmy McGriff, Magma, Fat Boys, Matthew Bourne, Joey Negro, Robert Hood, Section 25, The Cowsills, Absolute Body Control, Country Teasers, The Walker Brothers, Mandrill, Bad Manners, The Busters, Jesper Dahlback, ABBA, Kerrie Biddell, Cecil Taylor, Derrick Morgan, Traffic Nightmare, Deepchord, Second Layer, Barbara Tucker, Avey Tare, Can, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.

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)