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 Hungary and from Spokane.
But I was there.

I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Bremen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soft Cell to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Dawn Penn. All the underground hits.

All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '90s.

I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Donald Byrd, Barrington Levy, The Barracudas, The Pop Group, Cymande, the Fania All-Stars, Unrelated Segments, Parry Music, Frankie Knuckles, Glambeats Corp., Marshall Jefferson, Wire, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Pere Ubu, Cybotron, The Divine Comedy, Lindisfarne, the Bar-Kays, Gian Franco Pienzio, Index, X-101, Pagans, Blancmange, Matthew Bourne, Lower 48, The Walker Brothers, Sight & Sound, Scientists, Whodini, Kerrie Biddell, Dennis Brown, Jacob Miller, Pet Shop Boys, The Monochrome Set, 48th St. Collective, Rosa Yemen, Cecil Taylor, Eve St. Jones, Scan 7, U.S. Maple, Bootsy Collins, Dead Boys, Charles Mingus, Sonny Sharrock, Ituana, Leonard Cohen, Carl Craig, Bronski Beat, Vainqueur, The American Breed, ABC, The Searchers, Arthur Verocai, Alphaville, Scrapy, Rhythm & Sound, Mission of Burma, Delta 5, Silicon Teens, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats, The Raincoats.

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)