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 Finland and from Stockholm.
But I was there.

I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Madrid and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Erasure to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft. All the underground hits.

All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Altered Images 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 a 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Magazine record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Nas, Electric Light Orchestra, A Flock of Seagulls, Gang Starr, The Golliwogs, It's A Beautiful Day, Parry Music, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Fat Boys, Jesper Dahlbäck, Black Bananas, Funky Four + One, Janne Schatter, Rotary Connection, The Stooges, Black Moon, Adolescents, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Slick Rick, Jeru the Damaja, The Wake, Yellowson, Pantaleimon, OOIOO, Echospace, Lalo Schifrin, Television, Accadde A, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, The New Christs, Fluxion, Todd Terry, Intrusion, Kango’s Stein Massive, Godley & Creme, Wasted Youth, Gabor Szabo, Eve St. Jones, The Human League, Kenny Larkin, Scott Walker, The Names, Chris Corsano, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Underground Resistance, Lalann, Quando Quango, DJ Sneak, The Dead C, Eli Mardock, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Stockholm Monsters, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, Faust, The Angels of Light, The Knickerbockers, The Litter, DeepChord presents Echospace, Lou Reed, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Marc Almond, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet, Spandau Ballet.

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)