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 Cyprus and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Taipei and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the disco 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.

All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Von Mondo record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Warsaw, Amon Düül II, Metal Thangz, the Germs, Swans, Eric Dolphy, A Certain Ratio, Boogie Down Productions, Ituana, Youth Brigade, Stockholm Monsters, Faraquet, FM Einheit, Susan Cadogan, Lou Christie, Depeche Mode, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Dual Sessions, Bad Manners, Bobby Hutcherson, Nas, Infiniti, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, Sandy B, The Music Machine, New Age Steppers, Fela Kuti, Skaos, Davy DMX, John Cale, Faust, Freddie Wadling, Kaleidoscope, Boredoms, June of 44, Neu!, Supertramp, Zero Boys, Ronan, Peter & Gordon, Heavy D & The Boyz, Stiv Bators, Black Moon, Roxette, Slave, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Q65, Basic Channel, X-102, La Düsseldorf, Eve St. Jones, Joy Division, Mo-Dettes, Sun Ra, Lakeside, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap, Soft Machine, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, The Mummies, Magazine, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims, The Victims.

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)