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 Tonga and from Seoul.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Cluster to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.

All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants record on German import.

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

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

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Major Organ And The Adding Machine, the Human League, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Ten City, Crime, The Mummies, Todd Terry, Echospace, The Monochrome Set, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Wire, Country Teasers, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Colin Newman, Sister Nancy, Juan Atkins, Pet Shop Boys, Gastr Del Sol, Nick Fraelich, Boredoms, Groovy Waters, Cybotron, Second Layer, Gang Green, The Modern Lovers, The Index, Danielle Patucci, Rekid, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Make Up, Amazonics, Fugazi, Rapeman, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Banda Bassotti, Peter and Kerry, Sonny Sharrock, Spandau Ballet, Scion, Alison Limerick, Morten Harket, Rosa Yemen, Scratch Acid, DeepChord presents Echospace, Public Image Ltd., The Gap Band, Peter & Gordon, Joyce Sims, Aural Exciters, The Vogues, Joe Finger, Hoover, Outsiders, Jeru the Damaja, The Skatalites, Pierre Henry, Deadbeat, Curtis Mayfield, Beasts of Bourbon, Tommy Roe, Graham Central Station, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U, Q and Not U.

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)