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 Guinea and from Toronto.
But I was there.

I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the güiro 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 The Black Dice to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Erykah Badu. All the underground hits.

All The Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.

I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.

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

But have you seen my records?

This Heat, Blake Baxter, Procol Harum, Harpers Bizarre, Morten Harket, The Leaves, Black Bananas, Slick Rick, The Fire Engines, Donald Byrd, The Dirtbombs, The Fuzztones, Livin' Joy, Nation of Ulysses, Urselle, Rufus Thomas, Public Enemy, Nils Olav, Electric Light Orchestra, Scan 7, F. McDonald, Strawberry Alarm Clock, Johnny Clarke, Roger Hodgson, Glenn Branca, Main Source, June Days, CMW, The Mighty Diamonds, Drive Like Jehu, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Youth Brigade, Arcadia, Neu!, Robert Görl, Severed Heads, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, John Foxx, Ponytail, Kenny Larkin, Black Pus, Ralphi Rosario, Aaron Thompson, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Zapp, Albert Ayler, The Fall, Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Sam Rivers, Eve St. Jones, the Normal, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Loose Ends, Electric Prunes, Kayak, Neil Young, Matthew Bourne, The Human League, Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.

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)