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 Romania and from Winnipeg.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Skriet. All the underground hits.

All Lou Reed tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.

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

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

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

But have you seen my records?

The Techniques, The Shadows of Knight, Audionom, Godley & Creme, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Cymande, Soft Cell, Barrington Levy, The Index, Television Personalities, Yaz, The Litter, Dave Gahan, Mad Mike, Ken Boothe, Harmonia, Cal Tjader, Lower 48, Basic Channel, Terrestrial Tones, Lalo Schifrin, Kings Of Tomorrow, Gang Gang Dance, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Stockholm Monsters, Swans, Patti Smith, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Thee Headcoats, Lakeside, It's A Beautiful Day, Rod Modell, Royal Trux, Procol Harum, T.S.O.L., Essential Logic, Moebius, L. Decosne, The Mojo Men, Erasure, Scion, Shoche, Second Layer, Bobby Hutcherson, Pantaleimon, Lou Christie, The Velvet Underground, Chrome, Fluxion, Lightning Bolt, Index, Soul II Soul, The Slits, Matthew Bourne, This Heat, Kaleidoscope, Throbbing Gristle, Johnny Osbourne, Banda Bassotti, Moss Icon, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine, Soft Machine.

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)