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 Korea South and from Shanghai.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Manchester and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Dave Gahan to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bobby Womack. All the underground hits.

All Scientists tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.

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

But have you seen my records?

Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Siglo XX, Black Flag, Sixth Finger, The Young Rascals, Carl Craig, the Germs, Infiniti, Jawbox, The Mojo Men, Harpers Bizarre, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Fat Boys, Schoolly D, CMW, Pet Shop Boys, Pantytec, Barbara Tucker, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, The Doors, Roger Hodgson, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Eli Mardock, Tim Buckley, David Bowie, Beasts of Bourbon, T. Rex, Slave, Heavy D & The Boyz, Ossler, X-101, Terrestrial Tones, The Five Americans, The Knickerbockers, Jesper Dahlback, Robert Hood, Outsiders, Ituana, Fugazi, Fela Kuti, Unrelated Segments, Liaisons Dangereuses, The Blues Magoos, Slick Rick, Rites of Spring, The Vogues, A Certain Ratio, The Red Krayola, Nik Kershaw, the Bar-Kays, The Skatalites, The Mummies, Selector Dub Narcotic, Jacob Miller, The Buckinghams, Vaughan Mason & Crew, The Slits, Gang of Four, Angry Samoans, Kango’s Stein Massive, The Trojans, Eric Dolphy, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.

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)