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 Iraq and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.

I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Stockholm and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Durutti Column to the punk 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.

All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Curtis Mayfield 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

The Move, Ohio Players, Eden Ahbez, Marshall Jefferson, Barclay James Harvest, The Slackers, Kerri Chandler, Derrick Morgan, Section 25, Bobby Sherman, The Mighty Diamonds, Wasted Youth, Jandek, Reagan Youth, Von Mondo, Colin Newman, Piero Umiliani, The Pop Group, Black Pus, Radiopuhelimet, The Sisters of Mercy, Newcleus, Nico, James Chance & The Contortions, Porter Ricks, Fear, Au Pairs, Barry Ungar, Zero Boys, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Albert Ayler, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, The Litter, Mo-Dettes, China Crisis, The Durutti Column, Crime, Jeff Mills, Eric Dolphy, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Bizarre Inc., Sound Behaviour, Interpol, Masters at Work, The Gap Band, The Wake, Rekid, The Fire Engines, Negative Approach, Lee Hazlewood, Rosa Yemen, Thompson Twins, Alton Ellis, Buzzcocks, Ultimate Spinach, Jimmy McGriff, Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Black Flag, Anthony Braxton, Ultravox, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade, Youth Brigade.

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)