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 Ecuador and from Lille.
But I was there.

I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Shanghai and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 oboe 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 Mars to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell. All the underground hits.

All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?

Metal Thangz, Ultra Naté, Eurythmics, The Dead C, Bizarre Inc., Monolake, Fugazi, Los Fastidios, Urselle, T. Rex, Skaos, Guru Guru, X-102, Visage, The Gun Club, The Barracudas, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, The Birthday Party, Ornette Coleman, Suburban Knight, Liaisons Dangereuses, Beasts of Bourbon, Saccharine Trust, Sugar Minott, Matthew Halsall, Vainqueur, Bob Dylan, Loose Ends, Heavy D & The Boyz, the Sonics, The Angels of Light, Amon Düül, the Human League, Delon & Dalcan, Faust, Marine Girls, Brass Construction, Quando Quango, The Toasters, Warsaw, Bobby Hutcherson, Tubeway Army, Rhythim Is Rhythim, The Associates, OOIOO, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Red Krayola, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, China Crisis, John Lydon, Television, Gabor Szabo, Mandrill, Boredoms, Sun City Girls, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Robert Hood, Main Source, Lou Christie, Maleditus Sound, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros, The Zeros.

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)