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 Azerbaijan and from Beijing.
But I was there.

I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Tehran and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 48th St. Collective to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Grass Roots. All the underground hits.

All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, X-Ray Spex, Moby Grape, Lou Reed & John Cale, Liliput, Derrick May, The Electric Prunes, Matthew Bourne, Suburban Knight, John Holt, Harmonia, The Cosmic Jokers, Tomorrow, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Graham Central Station, Lalann, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Au Pairs, The Walker Brothers, Nas, Gang Starr, David Bowie, The Techniques, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Funkadelic, James White and The Blacks, Neil Young, Rites of Spring, Chrome, Black Moon, Absolute Body Control, Ultimate Spinach, Charles Mingus, Dawn Penn, Pylon, Saccharine Trust, MDC, The Divine Comedy, Lungfish, Godley & Creme, the Swans, Jerry Gold Smith, U.S. Maple, Reuben Wilson, Jerry's Kids, Adolescents, Ten City, Second Layer, The Golliwogs, The Zeros, Max Romeo, Cecil Taylor, Gil Scott Heron, Gerry Rafferty, Gichy Dan, The Fall, Essential Logic, Deakin, Pet Shop Boys, Mantronix, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan.

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)