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 Indonesia and from Delhi.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sonics to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.

All Terrestrial Tones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter 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 '80s.

I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Gian Franco Pienzio, John Cale, The Pretty Things, Mission of Burma, Average White Band, Simply Red, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Gang Gang Dance, Intrusion, Soulsonic Force, Curtis Mayfield, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Scott Walker + Sunn O))), the Slits, Bush Tetras, Hashim, The Sonics, David Axelrod, Country Teasers, Ralphi Rosario, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Audionom, Iggy Pop, Monks, Malaria!, Motorama, Max Romeo, The Fuzztones, Anakelly, Terry Callier, Dennis Brown, Severed Heads, Can, JFA, Sun Ra Arkestra, The Mummies, Mary Jane Girls, The Techniques, Model 500, Marmalade, Q65, Vainqueur, Kerri Chandler, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Ponytail, Scratch Acid, Shoche, Grauzone, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, The Victims, Radio Birdman, Harpers Bizarre, E-Dancer, Guru Guru, Cymande, New Order, Marine Girls, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Lonnie Liston Smith, Smog, Metal Thangz, Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images, Altered Images.

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)