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 Sri Lanka and from Cairo.
But I was there.

I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Copenhagen and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro 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 Black Bananas to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.

All Gary Puckett & The Union Gap tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Stooges record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.

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

But have you seen my records?

The Modern Lovers, Ultramagnetic MC's, Country Joe & The Fish, DJ Style, Bob Dylan, Duran Duran, The Gladiators, Malaria!, Bush Tetras, Index, Youth Brigade, Wings, New York Dolls, Sly & The Family Stone, Jimmy McGriff, Jerry Gold Smith, The Tremeloes, Freddie Wadling, Sixth Finger, Thee Headcoats, Avey Tare, The Saints, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, MC5, Black Pus, Traffic Nightmare, Scan 7, This Heat, Icehouse, Visage, JFA, Terry Callier, Erasure, Sex Pistols, Swans, Bobby Byrd, June Days, the Fania All-Stars, David McCallum, Crooked Eye, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, B.T. Express, Lungfish, Jeff Mills, Eric Dolphy, Barclay James Harvest, Echospace, Donny Hathaway, Can, U.S. Maple, The Fuzztones, cv313, Pharoah Sanders, Nico, Lou Christie, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Radio Birdman, The Dave Clark Five, Eyeless In Gaza, X-101, CMW, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins, Juan Atkins.

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)