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 Bulgaria and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.

I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 mellotron 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 10cc to the disco 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 Alison Limerick. All the underground hits.

All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.

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

But have you seen my records?

Andrew Hill, Aswad, X-102, Yaz, Lou Reed, Erasure, Robert Hood, Sight & Sound, Cameo, John Coltrane, Joe Finger, MDC, Ten City, Ultravox, World's Most, Peter & Gordon, Tropical Tobacco, Idris Muhammad, Fela Kuti, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Matthew Bourne, In Retrospect, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Patti Smith, Camberwell Now, Parry Music, The Toasters, The Young Rascals, Mantronix, Marmalade, Eden Ahbez, Circle Jerks, The Fire Engines, Gian Franco Pienzio, Eric Copeland, H. Thieme, The Chocolate Watch Band, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Unwound, Second Layer, Kayak, Traffic Nightmare, Ohio Players, Juan Atkins, Soulsonic Force, Crispy Ambulance, Danielle Patucci, 10cc, Oblivians, Television Personalities, Iggy Pop, Kevin Saunderson, Donald Byrd, The Victims, Aaron Thompson, Thee Headcoats, The Residents, Barclay James Harvest, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, David McCallum, DeepChord presents Echospace, Cluster, Joe Smooth, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim, Hashim.

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)