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 China and from Lyon.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Beijing and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Todd Terry to the funk 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 Joyce Sims. All the underground hits.

All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Severed Heads record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.

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

But have you seen my records?

Joey Negro, Brand Nubian, Sonic Youth, ABBA, Y Pants, The Saints, Echo & the Bunnymen, Section 25, Fear, The Royal Family And The Poor, New York Dolls, Yusef Lateef, Electric Prunes, Pagans, Barbara Tucker, Man Parrish, Subhumans, Cybotron, John Foxx, Hasil Adkins, The Barracudas, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Darondo, the Association, The Cure, Tres Demented, Marine Girls, Fat Boys, The Raincoats, Donny Hathaway, Absolute Body Control, Grandmaster Flash, Harmonia, Lungfish, Camouflage, the Bar-Kays, Girls At Our Best!, Maurizio, Cameo, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Radiohead, The Smoke, The Cowsills, the Human League, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Kayak, The Gun Club, Public Image Ltd., Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Marcia Griffiths, The Black Dice, Lakeside, Joe Finger, Bauhaus, Radiopuhelimet, Eric Copeland, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Judy Mowatt, Bluetip, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man, Little Man.

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)