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 Bahamas and from Mumbai.
But I was there.

I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Mexico City and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Soulsonic Force to the punk 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 Deepchord. All the underground hits.

All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Television Personalities, The Knickerbockers, The Divine Comedy, Danielle Patucci, B.T. Express, The Red Krayola, David McCallum, Simply Red, Rosa Yemen, Neil Young, T.S.O.L., Deakin, Matthew Halsall, Jerry's Kids, Symarip, In Retrospect, Mo-Dettes, Monolake, Accadde A, Bobby Hutcherson, Lou Reed, Delta 5, Basic Channel, Wings, Fugazi, The Fire Engines, Youth Brigade, Jesper Dahlbäck, Metal Thangz, Johnny Osbourne, Aural Exciters, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, The Buckinghams, Oneida, The Smiths, Can, Warren Ellis, Supertramp, X-102, Livin' Joy, Franke, The Cramps, Animal Collective, Public Image Ltd., Jeff Mills, Ossler, The Beau Brummels, Rhythm & Sound, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare, Judy Mowatt, The Fuzztones, Ajijia Myrayebe, Radiohead, Brick, Surgeon, The Blues Magoos, The Electric Prunes, The Neon Judgement, Darondo, Tom Boy, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four, Gang of Four.

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)