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 Gabon and from Bologna.
But I was there.

I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the guitar 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the techno 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 Kool Moe Dee. All the underground hits.

All Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 an arpeggiator and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang of Four record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

ABC, Brass Construction, The Cure, The Techniques, Todd Terry, The Dead C, Black Moon, The American Breed, X-101, Sister Nancy, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, Wally Richardson, The United States of America, Jacob Miller, Rites of Spring, John Coltrane, Metal Thangz, The Count Five, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Chris & Cosey, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, The Birthday Party, Al Stewart, Bobby Sherman, Oneida, Minny Pops, Janne Schatter, MDC, David McCallum, ABBA, Vladislav Delay, Jacques Brel, Soul Sonic Force, Soft Cell, Dark Day, FM Einheit, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Fifty Foot Hose, Rhythim Is Rhythim, Whodini, UT, The Saints, The Misunderstood, Clear Light, Talk Talk, OOIOO, Reuben Wilson, Sun Ra Arkestra, Cymande, Black Pus, MC5, Jandek, Fatback Band, Gang Gang Dance, The Fugs, The Beau Brummels, The Velvet Underground, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Anakelly, Glambeats Corp., Angry Samoans, Absolute Body Control, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish, One Last Wish.

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)