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 Togo and from Lille.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Halifax and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.

All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Blues Magoos 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 '80s.

I hear you're buying an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.

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

But have you seen my records?

Tres Demented, Eden Ahbez, the Fania All-Stars, Accadde A, The Slits, Robert Wyatt, Young Marble Giants, Maleditus Sound, Skaos, Marine Girls, Franke, Sugar Minott, Main Source, Barclay James Harvest, Rod Modell, Marvin Gaye, Television, Altered Images, Fort Wilson Riot, Kas Product, Circle Jerks, Liliput, Zero Boys, Cheater Slicks, The Offenders, Quando Quango, DNA, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Lucky Dragons, The Tremeloes, The Cramps, Funky Four + One, The Gap Band, Hoover, Masters at Work, Fad Gadget, Mantronix, Adolescents, The Move, Blake Baxter, The Saints, Judy Mowatt, Althea and Donna, Desert Stars, Todd Rundgren, Lalann, Morten Harket, Junior Murvin, Youth Brigade, Lebanon Hanover, New Order, The Shadows of Knight, Rufus Thomas, Crash Course in Science, Dennis Brown, Boogie Down Productions, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage, Camouflage.

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)