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 Maldives and from Mexico City.
But I was there.

I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise 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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Bremen and Seoul.
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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Heaven 17 to the grunge 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 The Real Kids. All the underground hits.

All Lee Hazlewood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bad Manners 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?

It's A Beautiful Day, Boz Scaggs, Easy Going, Lou Reed & John Cale, Harry Pussy, Ice-T, Symarip, Jawbox, Accadde A, The Fall, Public Image Ltd., Sad Lovers and Giants, The Toasters, Terrestrial Tones, New Order, The Fire Engines, Skarface, The Fuzztones, Jimmy McGriff, Al Stewart, Yellowson, Livin' Joy, The Fugs, Dave Gahan, Los Fastidios, Matthew Bourne, Sandy B, The Birthday Party, Nik Kershaw, Siglo XX, Kayak, These Immortal Souls, The Moody Blues, Gerry Rafferty, The Seeds, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, Y Pants, Popol Vuh, Gabor Szabo, Gang Gang Dance, Zapp, Scientists, Bobby Hutcherson, Radiopuhelimet, Black Bananas, The Cosmic Jokers, Fugazi, Pantaleimon, Bauhaus, Kenny Larkin, Joensuu 1685, Lou Reed & Metallica, X-101, Brothers Johnson, The Real Kids, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Be Bop Deluxe, Scott Walker + Sunn O))), The Stooges, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.

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)