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 Maldives and from Tehran.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Manchester and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro 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 Joe Smooth to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Echospace. All the underground hits.

All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monks record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

The Royal Family And The Poor, Ultra Naté, The Dave Clark Five, Q65, Soul Sonic Force, Quadrant, Sonic Youth, Ronan, Aloha Tigers, Silicon Teens, Malaria!, Ultimate Spinach, the Soft Cell, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, the Sonics, Tim Buckley, The American Breed, The Sisters of Mercy, Gregory Isaacs, The Count Five, Saccharine Trust, Reuben Wilson, Todd Terry, Groovy Waters, Eddi Front, Glambeats Corp., Gang of Four, Massinfluence, Kango’s Stein Massive, Eli Mardock, Al Stewart, Chris & Cosey, Gerry Rafferty, The Martian, Motorama, Barrington Levy, Derrick May, the Association, Marshall Jefferson, The Alarm Clocks, Sixth Finger, R.M.O., Jerry Gold Smith, Jeff Mills, Agitation Free, Parry Music, Scott Walker + Sunn O))), The Remains, The Sound, Guru Guru, Joyce Sims, The Divine Comedy, Robert Hood, Eyeless In Gaza, The Mummies, Lou Reed & Metallica, B.T. Express, Ice-T, Tears for Fears, Marcia Griffiths, The Zeros, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.

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)