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 Sudan and from Glasgow.
But I was there.

I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 Spokane and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Bootsy Collins to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.

All The Fire Engines tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum 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?

Bill Wells, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Sly & The Family Stone, Freddie Wadling, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Bill Near, Swell Maps, The Shadows of Knight, Black Flag, Brass Construction, New York Dolls, Nation of Ulysses, Black Moon, Nico, Accadde A, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Pet Shop Boys, Mr. Review, DJ Style, The Remains, Boz Scaggs, the Sonics, DNA, the Bar-Kays, The Seeds, Robert Wyatt, Man Parrish, Derrick May, Echo & the Bunnymen, Scientists, Newcleus, The Smoke, Johnny Osbourne, Max Romeo, David Axelrod, Silicon Teens, Yaz, Soft Cell, One Last Wish, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Aaron Thompson, The Divine Comedy, Henry Cow, Gang Gang Dance, Wasted Youth, Lou Reed, Nas, Yazoo, The Offenders, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Erasure, The Royal Family And The Poor, John Lydon, Radiohead, OOIOO, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Carl Craig, X-Ray Spex, Groovy Waters, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin, Deakin.

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)