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 the UAE and from Bologna.
But I was there.

I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Toronto and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 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 Brick to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Raincoats. All the underground hits.

All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultimate Spinach 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 '80s.

I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Standells record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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 Jesus and Mary Chain, The Young Rascals, Hasil Adkins, Fela Kuti, Erasure, R.M.O., Country Joe & The Fish, Byron Stingily, JFA, the Normal, Eve St. Jones, MDC, The Cure, The Names, Don Cherry, D'Angelo, Stetsasonic, Pagans, The Star Department, Chris & Cosey, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Skaos, The Litter, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, The Dave Clark Five, Young Marble Giants, Soft Machine, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Wire, Ludus, Main Source, Eli Mardock, Fort Wilson Riot, K-Klass, Rakim, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, The Slackers, Graham Central Station, Radiohead, Morten Harket, Man Parrish, The Human League, Dennis Brown, Cluster, Japan, Monks, Suicide, The Smoke, Cymande, F. McDonald, Pulsallama, Scientists, B.T. Express, Pierre Henry, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Sight & Sound, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Eddi Front, China Crisis, Black Bananas, The Music Machine, The Leaves, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch.

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)