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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Tokyo.
But I was there.

I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Mumbai and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 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 The Real Kids to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Brick. All the underground hits.

All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.

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

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

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

But have you seen my records?

DNA, Joy Division, The Sonics, Nick Fraelich, Selector Dub Narcotic, Zero Boys, Mantronix, The Detroit Cobras, Aaron Thompson, Eve St. Jones, A Certain Ratio, Kenny Larkin, Blancmange, Lakeside, The Gories, Rhythm & Sound, Andrew Hill, Arab on Radar, The Searchers, Underground Resistance, DJ Style, Youth Brigade, Buzzcocks, Pet Shop Boys, the Normal, the Bar-Kays, Freddie Wadling, Saccharine Trust, Maleditus Sound, Fort Wilson Riot, Chrome, Tres Demented, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Eli Mardock, Jeru the Damaja, Amazonics, Wally Richardson, Whodini, Amon Düül, Drexciya, the Human League, Chris & Cosey, Tubeway Army, The Slits, Mary Jane Girls, Crispian St. Peters, Archie Shepp, Procol Harum, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Don Cherry, Suburban Knight, Talk Talk, The Toasters, Eric Dolphy, Sex Pistols, The Moody Blues, Nik Kershaw, Motorama, Todd Rundgren, Kerri Chandler, the Slits, Crash Course in Science, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos, The Blues Magoos.

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)