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 Dominican Republic and from Salvador.
But I was there.

I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Spokane and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 kango's stein massive to the funk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Letta Mbulu. All the underground hits.

All Accadde A tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.

I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Human League record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.

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

But have you seen my records?

Lou Reed & John Cale, Aloha Tigers, CMW, Carl Craig, Marvin Gaye, Absolute Body Control, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, Fear, Siglo XX, Mary Jane Girls, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Flipper, The Sound, Vainqueur, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Gerry Rafferty, Gian Franco Pienzio, The Cramps, Monolake, Monks, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Yaz, Sonny Sharrock, China Crisis, Malaria!, Camberwell Now, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Boogie Down Productions, One Last Wish, Robert Görl, Throbbing Gristle, The Smoke, Pere Ubu, Rufus Thomas, the Sonics, Wolf Eyes, Donald Byrd, Ultimate Spinach, Blossom Toes, The Raincoats, Pole, The Star Department, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, The Move, Pulsallama, The Cosmic Jokers, Ituana, Mark Hollis, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, World's Most, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Sixth Finger, The Fire Engines, Matthew Halsall, Wally Richardson, Stereo Dub, Ultra Naté, Mr. Review, Second Layer, Mo-Dettes, Eric B and Rakim, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.

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)