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 Latvia and from Bologna.
But I was there.

I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Johannesburg and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Mark Hollis to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 John Cale. All the underground hits.

All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.

I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blossom Toes record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.

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

But have you seen my records?

EPMD, The Cowsills, Soulsonic Force, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Agitation Free, The Slits, Pantytec, Marc Almond, Fatback Band, Adolescents, Frankie Knuckles, The Selecter, Harpers Bizarre, Wally Richardson, Fela Kuti, Mandrill, Barclay James Harvest, The Detroit Cobras, Albert Ayler, The Kinks, Scott Walker, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Al Stewart, Jacob Miller, The Leaves, Stetsasonic, the Association, Henry Cow, Electric Prunes, Kings Of Tomorrow, Man Eating Sloth, Johnny Clarke, Carl Craig, Agent Orange, The Neon Judgement, Curtis Mayfield, Banda Bassotti, Duran Duran, MC5, Lonnie Liston Smith, Peter & Gordon, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, DNA, Panda Bear, The Count Five, JFA, Zapp, Kas Product, Index, Organ, Fifty Foot Hose, Basic Channel, Tom Boy, The Seeds, D'Angelo, Brothers Johnson, Traffic Nightmare, Sonic Youth, Section 25, Tim Buckley, Hot Snakes, Radiohead, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.

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)