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 Angola and from Lyon.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Bologna and Seoul.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Fela Kuti to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.

All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kango’s Stein Massive 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.

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

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

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

But have you seen my records?

K-Klass, Ultimate Spinach, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Young Marble Giants, Soul II Soul, Bill Wells, Heaven 17, The Music Machine, Skarface, The Blues Magoos, Glenn Branca, Bizarre Inc., UT, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Godley & Creme, Negative Approach, Pantaleimon, Eric Copeland, The Dave Clark Five, Sex Pistols, The Kinks, Siglo XX, Funky Four + One, DJ Style, Icehouse, Wally Richardson, Sam Rivers, Fifty Foot Hose, The Young Rascals, The Fortunes, The Moody Blues, Masters at Work, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Ice-T, Crash Course in Science, The American Breed, The Sound, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Robert Görl, Kevin Saunderson, Pylon, Tomorrow, Heavy D & The Boyz, Fluxion, Cameo, The Mummies, Moebius, Pierre Henry, Janne Schatter, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Rapeman, John Cale, Aaron Thompson, Amon Düül, James White and The Blacks, Von Mondo, Pharoah Sanders, Junior Murvin, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.

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)