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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Spokane.
But I was there.

I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Hong Kong and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the snare 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 Lalo Schifrin to the crunk 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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.

All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '70s.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.

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

But have you seen my records?

Simply Red, Josef K, Fifty Foot Hose, Yellowson, Gastr Del Sol, Alice Coltrane, Kings Of Tomorrow, Talk Talk, The Doors, Harmonia, The Pretty Things, Silicon Teens, Lucky Dragons, Los Fastidios, Suicide, Y Pants, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Swell Maps, Chris Corsano, The Chocolate Watch Band, FM Einheit, Soft Cell, Anakelly, Circle Jerks, Main Source, Sunsets and Hearts, The Fall, Funky Four + One, F. McDonald, The Sonics, Unwound, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Youth Brigade, the Fania All-Stars, Warsaw, Hot Snakes, Henry Cow, The Angels of Light, Make Up, Nation of Ulysses, Schoolly D, Roxy Music, EPMD, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Dave Gahan, Arcadia, Ultimate Spinach, Bill Near, Marvin Gaye, Rites of Spring, The Searchers, The Dirtbombs, Intrusion, UT, Rosa Yemen, Fort Wilson Riot, Funkadelic, The Toasters, Livin' Joy, Agitation Free, Skriet, Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.

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)