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 Burundi and from Taipei.
But I was there.

I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Accra and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Roger Hodgson to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.

All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Soft Cell record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Rakim, Minnie Riperton, The Electric Prunes, Oppenheimer Analysis, Roxette, Spoonie Gee, Judy Mowatt, Derrick Morgan, U.S. Maple, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Grey Daturas, Crime, Bob Dylan, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Talk Talk, E-Dancer, The Leaves, Boz Scaggs, Quando Quango, Lebanon Hanover, Rotary Connection, the Normal, Interpol, Terry Callier, Faust, Moss Icon, Gang Green, Schoolly D, The Modern Lovers, Thompson Twins, The Count Five, Banda Bassotti, Man Parrish, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Supertramp, Agent Orange, Kings Of Tomorrow, Infiniti, Arcadia, Stiv Bators, Deakin, Alison Limerick, Cheater Slicks, The Remains, Scott Walker, The Flesh Eaters, Bronski Beat, John Lydon, Audionom, The Fall, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Kayak, New Age Steppers, The Move, The Mummies, Scion, Moby Grape, Tropical Tobacco, Babytalk, Average White Band, The Litter, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth, Reagan Youth.

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)