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 Iran and from Bremen.
But I was there.

I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Accra and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lyres to the techno 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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.

All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.

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

I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.

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

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

But have you seen my records?

Ronan, Aaron Thompson, Scientists, Crooked Eye, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Banda Bassotti, Charles Mingus, Black Sheep, Tommy Roe, Stereo Dub, Peter & Gordon, the Human League, Sexual Harrassment, The Doobie Brothers, La Düsseldorf, T.S.O.L., Nas, Zero Boys, Oneida, Jawbox, The Mighty Diamonds, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Tomorrow, Stetsasonic, Josef K, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Masters at Work, Warren Ellis, Todd Terry, Mad Mike, Joyce Sims, The Happenings, Ponytail, Oblivians, Amon Düül II, New Order, Black Moon, Fad Gadget, Cecil Taylor, Chris Corsano, Babytalk, Au Pairs, The Red Krayola, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Rekid, LL Cool J, Boredoms, Blake Baxter, Easy Going, Model 500, Underground Resistance, Hardrive, China Crisis, The Velvet Underground, Drexciya, Panda Bear, Andrew Hill, The Associates, Roy Ayers Ubiquity, Zapp, Funky Four + One, Bill Near, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.

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)