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 Palau and from London.
But I was there.

I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Delhi and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 David Axelrod to the electroclash 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 Tomorrow. All the underground hits.

All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

The Grass Roots, Sixth Finger, Jeff Lynne, Scan 7, Make Up, Spoonie Gee, Nico, The Monks, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Gregory Isaacs, Masters at Work, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Jacob Miller, Television, Archie Shepp, Crispy Ambulance, Von Mondo, Brand Nubian, Hardrive, Angry Samoans, a-ha, Godley & Creme, Roy Ayers, Ornette Coleman, Skarface, The Skatalites, Sonic Youth, Harpers Bizarre, Japan, Grandmaster Flash, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Whodini, Ludus, Liliput, Quadrant, Kayak, Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane, The Associates, Mary Jane Girls, Bluetip, cv313, the Swans, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, The Slackers, Rhythm & Sound, Cymande, Minutemen, Bob Dylan, Marc Almond, Sight & Sound, Sonny Sharrock, Tomorrow, K-Klass, Young Marble Giants, Outsiders, Schoolly D, The Doors, Yusef Lateef, Sandy B, The Cowsills, Matthew Bourne, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.

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)