Losing My Edge

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 with Kate and with Whizzard.
But I was there.

I was there in Creation and Control.
I was there for the first flatline - SEA into Scorch.
I'm losing my edge
To the kids whose dice bags I hear when they get out their decks.
I'm losing my edge to the Internet nerdbears who can tell me every card
In every Worlds deck from 2012 to 2015.
I'm losing my edge
To all the kids - the token Geist, Andysuckers, and Adams
With little playmats and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered HBs.
But I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
But I was there.

I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the tokens when they get out their decks.

But I was there.
I was there in Genesis Cycle
The first fast advance players, in a loft in New York City
(I was working on the Eli counts with much patience.)
I was there when Dan D'Argenio started up his first run.
I told him, "Don't do it this click, it's gonna be a Snare."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing CI into Siphons
I played it on OCTGN
Everybody thought it was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.

I've never been wrong.
I used to lurk in the Skype chats.
I had all the tech before anyone.
I was there in the Covenant caster booth with Steven Wooley.
I was there in Minneapolis during the DLR clashes.
I woke up naked on the beach in Chicago in 2014.

But I'm losing my edge to better looking nerdbears with better ideas and more talent.
And they're mostly really, really nice.

I'm losing my edge.

I heard you have a compilation of every good deck ever played by anybody.
Every great deck by calimsha. All the Underground Contacts. All Supermodernism lists.
I heard you have a binder of every promo card in mint condition in your basement.
I heard that you have an all-signed version of every Timmy Wong deck:
Every Scorch, every Archer, every Hostile.
I heard that you have a .txt compilation of every champs-winning deck
And another .doc for Regionals.
I hear you're buying a third core set and a wifebeater
And throwing your Biotics out the window
Because you want to make something real.
You want to make a GRNDL deck.

I hear that you and your friends have cut your SanSans and brought Caprices.
I hear that you and your friends have cut your Caprices and brought SanSans.

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

But have you seen my decks? ABT, Lily Lockwell, Housekeeping, Midseason Replacements, Chum, The Cleaners, Caduceus, Tsurugi, NEXT Gold, Cybernetics Court, Shipment from SanSan, Domestic Sleepers, Ronin, Chairman Hiro, RSVP, Pup, Private Contracts, the Tollbooths, NAPD, Kitsune, Midori, Big Brother, Shocks!, Edge of World, Mushin No Shin, Oversight AI, Chronos Project, Shi.Kyū, Architect, Thomas Haas, two Ichis, Adonis, Eve, Plan B and Mark Yale, Sunset, Reality Threedee, Cortex Lock (just hit me!), Marcus Batty, Will-O'-the-Wisp, Corporate Shuffle, NeoTokyo Grid, JACK. SON. HOWARD!, the Cricks, Flare, Marked Accounts, Nisei Mk II and The Future Perfects, the Snoops, Museum, the Swordsman. The Swordsman. The Swordsman. The Swordsman.

You all know what you really want...