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 Glasgow.
But I was there.

I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Bologna and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Crime. All the underground hits.

All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, John Foxx, Roy Ayers, Pulsallama, Gang Starr, Harmonia, Ronan, Deakin, the Bar-Kays, Gang Green, Infiniti, Shuggie Otis, Ash Ra Tempel, the Normal, Girls At Our Best!, Technova, Magazine, The Pop Group, Monolake, Howard Jones, FM Einheit, F. McDonald, The Remains, Angry Samoans, Andrew Hill, Johnny Osbourne, Gregory Isaacs, The Walker Brothers, Vladislav Delay, Simply Red, Sandy B, Brick, The Leaves, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, Tubeway Army, Jeru the Damaja, Alice Coltrane, Ice-T, T.S.O.L., The Saints, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Sight & Sound, Schoolly D, The Cowsills, James Chance & The Contortions, the Association, Lou Reed & Metallica, Bush Tetras, The Martian, Dawn Penn, Minutemen, Amon Düül II, June Days, Rakim, Au Pairs, The Pretty Things, The Detroit Cobras, Visage, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.

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)