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 Kuwait and from Mumbai.
But I was there.

I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum 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 Mantronix to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Desert Stars. All the underground hits.

All Electric Light Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eric Copeland record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Art Ensemble Of Chicago, A Certain Ratio, Country Teasers, The Remains, D'Angelo, Shoche, Joensuu 1685, Pole, Zero Boys, Public Image Ltd., The Shadows of Knight, Bobby Byrd, Sun Ra, Jacob Miller, Clear Light, Marc Almond, Mad Mike, Tim Buckley, Niagra, Pierre Henry, The Fall, The Slits, Ken Boothe, E-Dancer, Slave, Rekid, One Last Wish, Chris Corsano, Radiopuhelimet, Eric Dolphy, Simply Red, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Bobbi Humphrey, Q and Not U, Angry Samoans, World's Most, K-Klass, Buzzcocks, Cecil Taylor, The Cure, Lou Reed & John Cale, Main Source, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Eddi Front, Cluster, Cal Tjader, Duran Duran, Roxette, Sexual Harrassment, Saccharine Trust, the Soft Cell, Intrusion, The Real Kids, Chrome, China Crisis, Motorama, Joey Negro, Dawn Penn, Donald Byrd, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.

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)