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 New Zealand and from Jakarta.
But I was there.

I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Cairo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 John Coltrane to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.

All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.

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

But have you seen my records?

AZ, Young Marble Giants, Grauzone, Nick Fraelich, Mr. Review, Boredoms, Man Parrish, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Spoonie Gee, Bobby Hutcherson, Brothers Johnson, Monolake, The Leaves, The Human League, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Wings, Index, The Sisters of Mercy, Lou Reed & John Cale, the Soft Cell, Matthew Bourne, X-102, Absolute Body Control, Lindisfarne, Bush Tetras, Michelle Simonal, Crime, The Seeds, Albert Ayler, Nation of Ulysses, Television, A Flock of Seagulls, The Misunderstood, Marmalade, The Skatalites, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Jerry Gold Smith, The Grass Roots, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Judy Mowatt, Magazine, The Pop Group, Robert Görl, Interpol, The Busters, Ituana, Johnny Osbourne, Lee Hazlewood, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Marvin Gaye, Faraquet, Lucky Dragons, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Hashim, Yaz, Fifty Foot Hose, Warren Ellis, Pharoah Sanders, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.

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)