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 Grenada and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.

I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Manchester and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Nik Kershaw to the rap 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 The Dave Clark Five. All the underground hits.

All Robert Görl 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 crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a 808 and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Men They Couldn't Hang record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

The Golliwogs, The Raincoats, The Litter, Shoche, Michelle Simonal, Rosa Yemen, Johnny Osbourne, Roxy Music, DNA, Camouflage, Gang Green, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Slave, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, The Dirtbombs, Swans, Todd Rundgren, Bobby Byrd, kango's stein massive, Grauzone, Ralphi Rosario, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, The Chocolate Watch Band, Royal Trux, Animal Collective, The Flesh Eaters, Delta 5, Unrelated Segments, Pantaleimon, The Fortunes, Minny Pops, A Certain Ratio, Jacob Miller, Underground Resistance, Rekid, Don Cherry, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Rod Modell, Barbara Tucker, Rapeman, Amon Düül, The Doobie Brothers, Ice-T, Sonny Sharrock, Lou Christie, Sister Nancy, Jeff Lynne, Electric Light Orchestra, Eli Mardock, Scan 7, AZ, Kurtis Blow, Toni Rubio, The Neon Judgement, Rakim, Clear Light, Symarip, Mo-Dettes, Liliput, Jerry Gold Smith, Sun Ra, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.

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)