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 Burundi and from New York.
But I was there.

I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scrapy. All the underground hits.

All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.

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 Ludus record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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 Dead C, Bobby Byrd, Schoolly D, Urselle, Nirvana, Stetsasonic, Lungfish, Black Flag, Technova, Flipper, Loose Ends, The Doobie Brothers, Ponytail, Ash Ra Tempel, Barclay James Harvest, Bobby Hutcherson, Nik Kershaw, Scientists, Andrew Hill, Mandrill, Jacques Brel, Sam Rivers, John Holt, Lou Christie, The Golliwogs, Jandek, D'Angelo, The Chocolate Watch Band, Fela Kuti, Gian Franco Pienzio, Chrome, Lindisfarne, Joey Negro, The Dirtbombs, Quantec, The Monochrome Set, Suicide, Severed Heads, Judy Mowatt, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, The J.B.'s, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Amon Düül, The Cure, Sun Ra Arkestra, Buzzcocks, Fifty Foot Hose, Wire, Soulsonic Force, Sixth Finger, Pole, Larry & the Blue Notes, Gong, Scratch Acid, Niagra, Easy Going, Visage, Bill Wells, Girls At Our Best!, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Fugazi, New York Dolls, Adolescents, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.

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)