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 Taiwan and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Cairo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bobby Sherman to the disco 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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.

All Gastr Del Sol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs 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 '70s.

I hear you're buying a sitar and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.

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

But have you seen my records?

Fad Gadget, Sound Behaviour, Sonny Sharrock, Steve Hackett, The Remains, Gerry Rafferty, Ludus, The Motions, Scion, Funky Four + One, Ten City, a-ha, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Donny Hathaway, Blancmange, The Human League, Country Joe & The Fish, Minor Threat, Hot Snakes, Sunsets and Hearts, Newcleus, L. Decosne, The Victims, Silicon Teens, Gong, Pierre Henry, The Skatalites, Lou Christie, Yazoo, Second Layer, U.S. Maple, Agent Orange, The Monks, Tommy Roe, DeepChord presents Echospace, The Beau Brummels, Parry Music, Henry Cow, Lakeside, the Association, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Louis and Bebe Barron, Shoche, New Order, Swans, The Litter, Lou Reed, Radiohead, Lightning Bolt, Crooked Eye, Swell Maps, Alice Coltrane, Faraquet, LL Cool J, the Human League, Sad Lovers and Giants, Pagans, Crash Course in Science, Cymande, Kerri Chandler, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose, Fifty Foot Hose.

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)