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 Indonesia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.

I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Lagos and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the organ 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.

All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.

I hear you're buying a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pussy Galore record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Funkadelic, The Gap Band, Derrick Morgan, The Detroit Cobras, The Doobie Brothers, Bill Wells, Brothers Johnson, Althea and Donna, Scrapy, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Moby Grape, The Men They Couldn't Hang, Rekid, Shuggie Otis, Gastr Del Sol, Eve St. Jones, Peter and Kerry, MC5, Gil Scott Heron, The Barracudas, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Frankie Knuckles, The Mighty Diamonds, The Divine Comedy, Rites of Spring, the Swans, Davy DMX, Wally Richardson, Crispian St. Peters, Infiniti, Second Layer, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Sad Lovers and Giants, Eurythmics, L. Decosne, Howard Jones, Jeff Mills, Absolute Body Control, Pierre Henry, The Monks, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Gang Green, Eric B and Rakim, Tropical Tobacco, Boredoms, The Sisters of Mercy, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Bobby Sherman, Television, Joe Finger, cv313, Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, Zapp, Mars, Shoche, the Slits, The Fugs, The Tremeloes, Grauzone, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Man Parrish, Harry Pussy, Hashim, Jeru the Damaja, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.

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)