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 Serbia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.

I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Calgary and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin 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 Cybotron to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Doors. All the underground hits.

All Johnny Osbourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aloha Tigers record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Metal Thangz, Organ, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Letta Mbulu, Kenny Larkin, The Evens, Tim Buckley, Be Bop Deluxe, Rakim, Jacob Miller, Todd Rundgren, Oblivians, The Searchers, D'Angelo, Rites of Spring, 8 Eyed Spy, Sam Rivers, Peter and Kerry, Inner City, Fatback Band, the Swans, Gang Green, The Dirtbombs, Theoretical Girls, The Sisters of Mercy, Ohio Players, Skaos, The Pretty Things, Jesper Dahlback, The Royal Family And The Poor, World's Most, Arthur Verocai, Joensuu 1685, the Germs, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, The Fuzztones, Cal Tjader, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Public Enemy, Gregory Isaacs, The Slits, Hardrive, The Selecter, Traffic Nightmare, Nation of Ulysses, Henry Cow, Black Pus, the Sonics, Pulsallama, Bob Dylan, Mr. Review, Depeche Mode, Bobby Hutcherson, These Immortal Souls, Blossom Toes, Max Romeo, Alice Coltrane, The Buckinghams, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.

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)