To the tune of
LCD Soundsystem's "Losing My Edge"

I'm losing my Edge
The kids are coming up from behind

I'm losing my edge
To the kids with their laptops and their eBay

But I was there.

I was there in 1974
I put twenty-five cents in the first Pong machine

I'm losing my edge
To the kids whose thumbs are calloused from their wavebirds

I'm losing my edge
To the internet seller, who can sell me every one of every good game from 1972-1998

I'm losing my edge
To all the kids in Tokyo & Berlin

To the art school brooklynites, with their emulators and their borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered 80s

I'm losing my edge
But I was there

In 1957, playing Tennis for Two, in a bunker in the Brookhaven lab.
I was working on the oscilliscope

I was there when Nolan Bushell wrote his first game.
I told him, "don't do it that way. you'll never make a dime"

I was there

I was the first guy playing Space Invaders in the arcade
I played it in the chip shop. they all thought I was crazy

We all know, I was there

I've never been wrong. I used to work in Woolworths

I was there play-testing Defender with Eugene

I was there in Yokyo queuing for the Saturn launch

I was hanging with Link in Hyrule in '88

but I'm losing my Edge
To better looking kids, with more ideas & more talent
and they're really, really nice

I heard that you have a compilation of every good game done by anybody

Every great game by miyamoto
All the underground hits
All the Doom and Quake wads

I heard you have tape of every commodore game, on german import

I heard you have a white label of every seminal Atari VCS cart - 78, 79, 80

I heard you have a CD compilation of every great Amiga game
And a box set for the ST

I hear you're buying a compiler, an assembler and throwing your Playstation out the window because you want to make something real

You wanna make a Pong clone

I hear that you and your friends have sold your consoles and bought PCs

I hear that you and your friends have sold your PCs and bought consoles

I hear that everybody you know is more hardcore than everybody I know

GP32, Atari Falcon, Super Famicom, PC Engine, Streetfighter, Game Gear, Oric Atmos, Game Cube, MSX, Game & Watch, XBOX, Commodore 64, Virtual Boy, Atari 400, 800, XL, XE, Wonderswan, Neo Geo, Konix Multisystem, Sega Nomad, Adventurevision, Vectrex, Sinclair Spectrum

<Chorus>
You don't know what you really want

<Repeat to fade>

Lyrics stolen from various places on the internet, and dredged up from my addled brain, but most of it is sort of there.

Cheers
Chris

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