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 Indonesia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.

I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Edmonton and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Grass Roots to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Leaves. All the underground hits.

All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas 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 '70s.

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

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Theoretical Girls, Loose Ends, Peter & Gordon, L. Decosne, Max Romeo, Cameo, Moby Grape, E-Dancer, Cybotron, X-101, Pole, Gerry Rafferty, Sun City Girls, The Fire Engines, The Mighty Diamonds, Lou Reed & Metallica, F. McDonald, Supertramp, Deakin, Slave, Dave Gahan, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Robert Hood, Eddi Front, a-ha, Fad Gadget, The Dead C, Nas, Ten City, Jerry's Kids, The Count Five, the Fania All-Stars, Marcia Griffiths, London Community Gospel Choir, X-Ray Spex, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, Lonnie Liston Smith, Brand Nubian, Gang Green, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Flamin' Groovies, Public Image Ltd., Electric Light Orchestra, Marc Almond, The Dirtbombs, JFA, Cal Tjader, Kerrie Biddell, Davy DMX, FM Einheit, Janne Schatter, China Crisis, Pere Ubu, Ronan, Mandrill, Guru Guru, 48th St. Collective, DJ Sneak, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.

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)