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 Guyana and from Toronto.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Dennis Brown to the dance 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 Oppenheimer Analysis. All the underground hits.

All Gang Gang Dance tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker + Sunn O))) record on German import.

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

I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Black Bananas record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Andrew Hill, Sound Behaviour, One Last Wish, Nik Kershaw, The Martian, The Moody Blues, Johnny Osbourne, Susan Cadogan, Essential Logic, Donald Byrd, Grey Daturas, Jawbox, Barrington Levy, Aloha Tigers, Carl Craig, The Chocolate Watch Band, Negative Approach, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Beau Brummels, Smog, Terrestrial Tones, Moebius, PIL, Newcleus, Faraquet, The Monochrome Set, Sandy B, Isaac Hayes, Iggy Pop, Wally Richardson, Marc Almond, Kevin Saunderson, Skriet, Derrick May, Sight & Sound, Ronnie Foster, Shuggie Otis, Delta 5, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Swell Maps, The Five Americans, Lou Reed & John Cale, Chrome, Pussy Galore, June Days, Erasure, Oneida, Harry Pussy, Subhumans, Second Layer, Ludus, Ultramagnetic MC's, the Sonics, Sexual Harrassment, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.

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)