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 Turkey and from Portland.
But I was there.

I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Taipei and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Black Bananas to the techno 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 Gregory Isaacs. All the underground hits.

All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Be Bop Deluxe record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Colin Newman record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

The Remains, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Cybotron, Lower 48, Scrapy, Zapp, The American Breed, Television Personalities, the Soft Cell, Minor Threat, Janne Schatter, Aural Exciters, Grauzone, Blancmange, Roxy Music, The Saints, Suicide, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Cabaret Voltaire, Gian Franco Pienzio, Mission of Burma, Subhumans, Black Bananas, Sarah Menescal, Tears for Fears, Mandrill, The Wake, K-Klass, Easy Going, Ossler, Brothers Johnson, LL Cool J, Don Cherry, Todd Terry, The Move, Scratch Acid, One Last Wish, Sad Lovers and Giants, The Doobie Brothers, Nico, Bill Wells, The Mojo Men, Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Vladislav Delay, Sound Behaviour, Shuggie Otis, 8 Eyed Spy, Saccharine Trust, The Raincoats, Lungfish, Morten Harket, Aswad, Second Layer, Wasted Youth, Neu!, Parry Music, Barbara Tucker, kango's stein massive, Amon Düül, Barrington Levy, The Cramps, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.

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)