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 Korea North and from Madrid.
But I was there.

I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Cairo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 Sam Rivers to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Harpers Bizarre. All the underground hits.

All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom record on German import.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?

Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Eden Ahbez, Lou Reed & Metallica, Deepchord, Selector Dub Narcotic, Grauzone, Crime, Cal Tjader, Newcleus, Don Cherry, Peter and Kerry, Massinfluence, The Cowsills, LL Cool J, Dave Gahan, Michelle Simonal, Crooked Eye, Television, The Men They Couldn't Hang, EPMD, Barclay James Harvest, Joy Division, Spoonie Gee, Pharoah Sanders, Icehouse, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Juan Atkins, The Misunderstood, The Associates, Quantec, Deadbeat, Nick Fraelich, the Normal, Pantytec, Simply Red, Porter Ricks, Parry Music, Be Bop Deluxe, Graham Central Station, ABBA, The Martian, Con Funk Shun, Second Layer, Agitation Free, The Red Krayola, The Grass Roots, James White and The Blacks, Terrestrial Tones, JFA, Can, Ohio Players, Sister Nancy, Eric B and Rakim, Scratch Acid, Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Danielle Patucci, The New Christs, a-ha, Rakim, The Doors, Hot Snakes, Gerry Rafferty, Electric Prunes, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.

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)