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 El Salvador and from Madrid.
But I was there.

I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in New York and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet 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 David McCallum to the jazz 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 Mars. All the underground hits.

All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.

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

But have you seen my records?

The Misunderstood, Drexciya, Young Marble Giants, Rhythm & Sound, The Fuzztones, David Bowie, James Chance & The Contortions, Shoche, Curtis Mayfield, The Doors, Skarface, Country Teasers, Morten Harket, The Vogues, Thee Headcoats, Sonny Sharrock, The Offenders, The Moleskins, Popol Vuh, The Residents, Mantronix, Subhumans, The Mummies, Grandmaster Flash, Kas Product, Inner City, Carl Craig, Lucky Dragons, Brass Construction, Soft Cell, The Blues Magoos, Hasil Adkins, Girls At Our Best!, Michelle Simonal, Aural Exciters, DJ Style, CMW, Chris Corsano, The Searchers, The Gories, the Human League, Unrelated Segments, Desert Stars, The Black Dice, K-Klass, The Mojo Men, Groovy Waters, Reagan Youth, Motorama, New Age Steppers, Pet Shop Boys, Little Man, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Gastr Del Sol, Bootsy Collins, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Bush Tetras, Malaria!, Reuben Wilson, EPMD, Ultravox, Gang Gang Dance, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco, Tropical Tobacco.

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)