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 Morocco and from Edmonton.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Lyon and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
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 Scratch Acid to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.

All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.

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

But have you seen my records?

Jeru the Damaja, Ronan, The Beau Brummels, Neu!, Gang Green, Yaz, The Sisters of Mercy, Tears for Fears, Television, Interpol, Dawn Penn, Country Teasers, Aswad, Crash Course in Science, Stockholm Monsters, Nils Olav, The Slits, Thompson Twins, The Mighty Diamonds, Matthew Halsall, D'Angelo, Severed Heads, Kas Product, Youth Brigade, Arcadia, Altered Images, Vladislav Delay, The J.B.'s, The Velvet Underground, This Heat, Todd Rundgren, Rapeman, China Crisis, Slave, The Detroit Cobras, Wally Richardson, Juan Atkins, Bob Dylan, Davy DMX, Ossler, Ajijia Myrayebe, Pantytec, Nas, Von Mondo, Charles Mingus, Lower 48, Mission of Burma, Anakelly, Isaac Hayes, Fugazi, Second Layer, Gerry Rafferty, Kenny Larkin, LL Cool J, Vainqueur, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Visage, Nick Fraelich, Ludus, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.

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)