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 Albania and from Mexico City.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Hong Kong and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 K-Klass to the electroclash 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 Juan Atkins. All the underground hits.

All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swans 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.

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

But have you seen my records?

K-Klass, Monks, Kango’s Stein Massive, Gong, Sugar Minott, Silicon Teens, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Fear, The Wake, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Magazine, Soft Machine, Brand Nubian, Grauzone, Grey Daturas, Sam Rivers, Half Japanese, The Gories, Model 500, Terry Callier, Danielle Patucci, Vainqueur, E-Dancer, Peter & Gordon, Bill Near, Sister Nancy, Siglo XX, Hot Snakes, Animal Collective, Aural Exciters, The Trojans, Laurel Aitken, Deepchord, Yusef Lateef, Bobbi Humphrey, Bang On A Can, Anakelly, Kaleidoscope, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Sun Ra, Electric Light Orchestra, Rapeman, Mo-Dettes, Wasted Youth, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Arcadia, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Stetsasonic, Infiniti, Ultimate Spinach, Bauhaus, L. Decosne, The Doobie Brothers, Quando Quango, Eve St. Jones, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Mars, Pussy Galore, Minutemen, Neu!, Jawbox, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood, Robert Hood.

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)