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 Poland and from Houston.
But I was there.

I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Seoul and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Ralphi Rosario to the funk 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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.

All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 a chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

DJ Sneak, The Fall, Half Japanese, Zero Boys, Dorothy Ashby, Oblivians, Qualms, Jeff Lynne, The Sound, Wally Richardson, Bill Wells, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Ultimate Spinach, Roxy Music, Agent Orange, Don Cherry, Curtis Mayfield, Fela Kuti, The Flesh Eaters, Alton Ellis, Eddi Front, The Jesus and Mary Chain, MC5, Swell Maps, The Doors, Harmonia, Nas, Eve St. Jones, F. McDonald, Heaven 17, Depeche Mode, Harry Pussy, Deepchord, Jerry Gold Smith, Lonnie Liston Smith, Dave Gahan, Sunsets and Hearts, Stiv Bators, The American Breed, Organ, Flash Fearless, Sonny Sharrock, Stetsasonic, The Last Poets, Robert Görl, Rites of Spring, Basic Channel, Warren Ellis, A Flock of Seagulls, Barry Ungar, Sandy B, Technova, Kurtis Blow, Quando Quango, The Zeros, MDC, The Saints, Gong, Television, Neu!, Howard Jones, Inner City, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.

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)