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 Sudan and from Portland.
But I was there.

I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flipper to the grunge 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.

All Major Organ And The Adding Machine tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Max Romeo record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.

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

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Kool Moe Dee, Gang of Four, Vladislav Delay, Boz Scaggs, Echospace, Davy DMX, Skarface, The Toasters, The American Breed, Cymande, Rosa Yemen, Boogie Down Productions, Bad Manners, Ronnie Foster, Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Robert Görl, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Oblivians, Lightning Bolt, Gregory Isaacs, EPMD, Gang Starr, Zero Boys, Lou Reed & Metallica, Bizarre Inc., Fifty Foot Hose, Morten Harket, Moss Icon, Traffic Nightmare, F. McDonald, Alice Coltrane, Michelle Simonal, Louis and Bebe Barron, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, JFA, Gerry Rafferty, The Leaves, The Music Machine, MDC, Shuggie Otis, Public Image Ltd., Jacob Miller, The Evens, Soft Cell, Infiniti, Blossom Toes, Pulsallama, Marvin Gaye, Lonnie Liston Smith, Interpol, Arthur Verocai, The Blues Magoos, Pet Shop Boys, The Star Department, Danielle Patucci, Urselle, Tommy Roe, Quantec, Arab on Radar, Eric B and Rakim, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.

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)