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 Syria and from Tehran.
But I was there.

I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Roxette to the disco 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 Young Marble Giants. All the underground hits.

All Sandy B tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Litter record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a spring reverb.

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

But have you seen my records?

Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Max Romeo, Roger Hodgson, Loose Ends, Goldenarms, Sällskapet, Crispian St. Peters, Hardrive, The Cure, Bob Dylan, Wasted Youth, Soul Sonic Force, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Gastr Del Sol, A Certain Ratio, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Matthew Bourne, The Moleskins, Harry Pussy, Morten Harket, The Sound, Bobby Womack, The Dave Clark Five, Eli Mardock, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Tim Buckley, The Sisters of Mercy, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, The Last Poets, Minor Threat, KRS-One, The Fire Engines, Howard Jones, Nas, Bizarre Inc., Brand Nubian, Judy Mowatt, the Sonics, The Skatalites, Reagan Youth, Young Marble Giants, Cal Tjader, Blake Baxter, Dorothy Ashby, The Alarm Clocks, the Normal, Black Moon, Magma, the Soft Cell, FM Einheit, Crash Course in Science, Inner City, Pylon, Faraquet, The Evens, T. Rex, The Move, Mandrill, OOIOO, F. McDonald, Pere Ubu, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.

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)