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 Israel and from Woodstock.
But I was there.

I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Bremen and Tokyo.
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 Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Crispian St. Peters to the dance 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.

All The Trojans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.

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

I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.

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

But have you seen my records?

Kool G Rap & DJ Polo, Stiv Bators, Nick Fraelich, Lou Reed, Warsaw, Delon & Dalcan, New Order, Organ, Public Enemy, Tubeway Army, Kayak, Deakin, Altered Images, The Victims, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oblivians, Ituana, Curtis Mayfield, Yellowson, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, World's Most, Soft Cell, the Sonics, Whodini, Traffic Nightmare, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Colin Newman, Pylon, Sparks, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Zapp, Television, Electric Light Orchestra, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Pantytec, Soul Sonic Force, Joe Finger, The Barracudas, Yaz, Ice-T, Sällskapet, Sun Ra, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, 10cc, Alice Coltrane, Hot Snakes, Brass Construction, Black Pus, E-Dancer, Junior Murvin, The Black Dice, Tommy Roe, The Divine Comedy, Cabaret Voltaire, Technova, Magma, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Aloha Tigers, Brothers Johnson, The Trojans, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.

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)