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 Ireland and from London.
But I was there.

I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Beijing and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
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 Avey Tare to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bobby Byrd. All the underground hits.

All Joe Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan record on German import.

I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.

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

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

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

But have you seen my records?

James Chance & The Contortions, Icehouse, Chrome, Whodini, Glenn Branca, Steve Hackett, PIL, Fluxion, Danielle Patucci, Blake Baxter, Sonic Youth, James White and The Blacks, Gian Franco Pienzio, Morten Harket, 10cc, Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch, Black Pus, Todd Terry, John Holt, Agitation Free, Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade, The Pretty Things, Joe Smooth, D'Angelo, These Immortal Souls, Lee Hazlewood, Alphaville, Stiv Bators, Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme, Blossom Toes, Maleditus Sound, De La Soul & Jungle Brothers, Minor Threat, The Fire Engines, Infiniti, Urselle, U.S. Maple, The Wake, Soul II Soul, Lightning Bolt, Eric Dolphy, Mad Mike, Amon Düül II, Ituana, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Amazonics, Nik Kershaw, Eli Mardock, Flash Fearless, Fatback Band, Jeff Mills, Audionom, Johnny Osbourne, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Q and Not U, Gregory Isaacs, The Smiths, Boz Scaggs, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel, Basic Channel.

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)