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 Ukraine and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.

I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Manila and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the snare 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 Lyres to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lou Reed. All the underground hits.

All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Görl record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dorothy Ashby record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.

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

But have you seen my records?

Suicide, The Blackbyrds, Lindisfarne, Qualms, Lebanon Hanover, Girls At Our Best!, Funkadelic, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, The Associates, Morten Harket, The Toasters, Moby Grape, Cabaret Voltaire, Vladislav Delay, Carl Craig, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Magazine, Dead Boys, London Community Gospel Choir, Warren Ellis, DNA, Godley & Creme, Rotary Connection, Toni Rubio, The Misunderstood, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra Arkestra, Joe Finger, The Zeros, Ajijia Myrayebe, Dark Day, The Birthday Party, Cluster, Kas Product, The Monochrome Set, Hasil Adkins, The Fire Engines, Lucky Dragons, The Stooges, Barry Ungar, Warsaw, The Pretty Things, Thompson Twins, Graham Central Station, Audionom, Tomorrow, Brand Nubian, Gang Gang Dance, The Cure, Byron Stingily, Gregory Isaacs, Laurel Aitken, Cal Tjader, Fatback Band, Flamin' Groovies, Joyce Sims, Aaron Thompson, June of 44, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.

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)