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 United Kingdom and from Lille.
But I was there.

I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Jakarta and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 New Age Steppers to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Archie Shepp. All the underground hits.

All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.

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

But have you seen my records?

Gerry Rafferty, Excepter, The Fall, Stereo Dub, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Sun Ra Arkestra, Gang Gang Dance, Eric Dolphy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Kango’s Stein Massive, Jesper Dahlback, DeepChord presents Echospace, Talk Talk, Sly & The Family Stone, Radiohead, ABBA, Alison Limerick, Pulsallama, Laurel Aitken, Joy Division, Gil Scott Heron, Bill Wells, Circle Jerks, Harry Pussy, Moby Grape, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, Black Flag, Heavy D & The Boyz, Nirvana, Minutemen, Mars, Gabor Szabo, Swell Maps, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, U.S. Maple, Moss Icon, Metal Thangz, Vainqueur, Steve Hackett, Kool Moe Dee, Barry Ungar, Dorothy Ashby, Neu!, Jandek, the Normal, Ohio Players, The Doobie Brothers, Mad Mike, The Remains, Beasts of Bourbon, K-Klass, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Robert Hood, Max Romeo, Flamin' Groovies, June of 44, DNA, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Knickerbockers, Donny Hathaway, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox, Jawbox.

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)