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 Zimbabwe and from Lille.
But I was there.

I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Cairo and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 theremin 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 Justin Hinds & The Dominoes to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Metal Thangz. All the underground hits.

All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.

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

But have you seen my records?

Hoover, Tropical Tobacco, It's A Beautiful Day, Matthew Halsall, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, K-Klass, Fatback Band, Jacques Brel, The Real Kids, E-Dancer, Sight & Sound, Model 500, Anthony Braxton, Skaos, Heavy D & The Boyz, Pole, Amon Düül, Lonnie Liston Smith, Gabor Szabo, Roxy Music, Radio Birdman, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Au Pairs, Y Pants, Kerri Chandler, Warsaw, Marine Girls, The American Breed, Monks, Barbara Tucker, Rhythm & Sound, Black Sheep, The Pop Group, Kayak, The Monochrome Set, Deadbeat, Pet Shop Boys, Marshall Jefferson, Crime, Henry Cow, Man Parrish, The Barracudas, The Dead C, Magma, The Trojans, Babytalk, The Shadows of Knight, Excepter, Rosa Yemen, Quantec, Ajijia Myrayebe, Tubeway Army, Suicide, Flash Fearless, Minny Pops, the Fania All-Stars, Sly & The Family Stone, Surgeon, Morten Harket, Sun Ra Arkestra, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review, Mr. Review.

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)