they have the top 50 videos up today.

lyrics.

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 France and from London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.

To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.

But I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
I was there.
But I was there.

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 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the organ 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 Daft Punk to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.

I used to work in the record store.
I had everything before anyone.
I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988.

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 the Beach Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagra record on German import. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.

I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.

I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.

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

But have you seen my records? This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,

Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra,
Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,

Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.

You don't know what you really want. (x15)

400. Boris "Ibitsu" (single-microphone practice-tape aesthetic really works for this song)

399. Amy Winehouse "Tears Dry on Their Own" (i wouldn't peg this as the top winehouse song. that would be me and mr. jones, and that's only because i have a vivid memory attaching that track to the summer of 07)

398. The Chemical Brothers "Star Guitar" (cruisin' down sepulveda with the top down, tacos and champagne on the console, tiny spoon hangin 'round the neck)

397. Queens of the Stone Age "The Lost Art of Keeping a Secret" (the song that got me hooked on QOTSA mid-decade. good call, bloggers)

396. Nathan Fake "The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix)" (truly the reigning king of jitterstep and zilchcore)

395. Death From Above 1979 "Romantic Rights" (i always thought it was hilarious when aspiring music journalists would call this type of thing 'skronk.' was a good idea for its time. too bad the bass/drum duo thing was merely a scene-blip for about 9 months. long live lightning bolt.)

394. The Streets "Blinded by the Lights" (my first portal into cockney street poetry long ago. solid track.)

393. Lightning Bolt "Dracula Mountain" (LB played in my bathroom once. not really)

392. B15 Project "Girls Like Us" (i hope there's a compelling backstory with this one, because this jazzercise track isn't burnin my quads if you know what i mean)

391. King Khan and the Shrines "Welfare Bread" (superbad....dy-no-mite, even)

390. The Long Blondes "Once and Never Again" (you're a sassy girl, you got your feelings hurt, i get it)

389. Junior Boys "High Come Down" (truly the reigning kings of fancycore, dapperstep, and dandygaze)

388. Sigur Rós "Hoppípolla" (dudes voice has always ruined it for me)

387. Cortney Tidwell "Don't Let Stars Keep Us Tangled Up (Ewan's Objects in Space Remix)" (secret: about once every six months i clean house to paul van dyk. this mayhap make a nice replacement)

386. Konono No. 1 "Paradiso" (twice as good as konono no. 2)

385. Four Tet "My Angel Rocks Back and Forth" ( better than good but not quite great. sits on my aural shelf among other purveyors of moody-blip like telefon)

384. Boards of Canada "Music Is Math" (BoC is quite brilliant in concept, marrying ambience with warbled film strips from 6th grade science class. Geogaddi's not as good as Music Has... imho)

383. Girls "Hellhole Ratrace" (first thing that popped into my head was a low-key joe strummer backed by the guitarist(s) from iran)

382. The Microphones "The Moon" [Song Islands version] (appears they named their band after that which they know least about)

381. Crime Mob "Knuck If You Buck" (funny, i was thinking about knucking earlier today)

380. Rex the Dog "I Look Into Mid-Air" (fair to decent, as far as love-parade music goes)

379. Goldfrapp "Strict Machine" (not as sexy as the earlier listed 'frapp, but still pretty stank)

378. Blur "Out of Time" (good song to sit around and pretend you're rich to)

377. Soulwax "NY Excuse" (i wouldn't dance to this song if i had to take the worst piss in the world)

376. El-P "Stepfather Factory" (reminds me of a citizen cope with ballz)

375. Röyksopp "What Else Is There?" (love this track...the love child of the pet shop boys and a scandinavian cyndi lauper?)

374. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart "Young Adult Friction" (cutesy lo-fi. i hear a fog horn. bo-ring.)

373. Cannibal Ox "The F-Word" (lala is jerking me around with these 30 second clips. not enough time to form an opinion...)

372. Camera Obscura "French Navy" (classy pop for impeccably dressed scarf wearers and orange eaters)

371. Cam'ron [ft. Sarah Hindes] "Get 'Em Girls" (according to this dude, he's really cool, really tough, and girls like to swing on his jock. next.)

370. Lumidee "I'll Never Leave You (Uh Oooh, Uh Oooh)" (can one contract hepatitis listening to music?)

369. Primal Scream "Swastika Eyes" (after MBV, i'm still having a hard time "getting" primal scream)

368. Together "So Much Love to Give" (song is impossibly poetic)

367. Frightened Rabbit "The Modern Leper" (rainy pop with an adorable glaswegian accent)

366. Matthew Dear "Dog Days" (30 seconds of this one and I start gumming. crazy)

365. Gwen Stefani "What You Waiting For (Thin White Duke Remix)" (thought this was the godawful yodeling song, but it's actually kinda good)

364. Elliott Smith "Everything Reminds Me of Her" (never got what the big deal was with this feller. he dead, right?)

363. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah "The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth" (ridiculous vocals and a weird name will get you far. thanks for leaving us your liquor at tarbox, cyhsy)

362. Sigur Rós "Vaka (Untitled 1)" (how many hipsters had this played at their wedding)

361. Smog "Rock Bottom Riser" (haunting. suitcase record player song)

360. Boards of Canada "In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country" (the BoC laughing ghost kids strike again. as is the case with many artists, the early material is often the most interesting)

359. Young Jeezy [ft. Jay-Z] "Go Crazy (Remix)" (do dorks who read music blogs really listen to this?)

358. Cat Power "I Found a Reason" (good gourmet coffee music)

357. Japandroids "Young Hearts Spark Fire" (well well, if it isn't japandroids. i suppose it is about time to have a crank records/deep elm throwback era for 19 yr olds with beards)

356. Jason Forrest "10 Amazing Years" (suppose you were one of the 87 artists whose samples were included in a song like this. would you sue for your .01432% credit?)

355. Deerhoof "Milk Man" (cartoon character-fronted nipponese kitsch-pop sung in hon kumoi shiouzhi tonal scale is really pretty brilliant)

354. Tinariwen "Matadjem Yinmixan" (i'm usually pretty intrigued when world/indigenous music makes lists like these, but this was almost too "Berber Santana" for me)

353. Stars of the Lid "Requiem for Dying Mothers (Part 1)" (a great example of the kind of static, brain enveloping melancholia i fancy most the time. i'd not heard this song, but twas good)

352. Maxïmo Park "Apply Some Pressure" (still scratching my head that warp signed them. but, hey, i guess they're subjects of the Queen)

351. Rich Boy [ft. Polow Da Don] "Throw Some D's" (he just bought a new car and would like to spend some money customizing it)

350. Man Man "Van Helsing Boombox" (quaint cabaret track with lots of bone machine room noises and click clacks, kinda fun)

349. Beanie Sigel [ft. Melissa] "Feel It in the Air" (some good vinyl samples lifted for the rhythm beds on this urbo-ditty, but otherwise uninspired)

348. Aesop Rock "Daylight" (more urban abstraction than a harlem poetry slam)

347. Bonnie "Prince" Billy "Cursed Sleep" (song somehow hits a sweet spot, as i sit here all swimmy headed with seasonal autumn allergies)

346. Super Furry Animals "Juxtaposed With U" (this is '01 so i guess i can forgive the auto-tuned vocals. all the strings and headphone candy makes me think a welsh flaming lips?)

345. Antony and the Johnsons "Aeon" (someone once said (that someone being capn) they'd like the voice on their GPS to be antony's. and instead of giving directions, it would just weep softly. and i thought that was funny)

344. Lil Wayne "Hustler Musik" (we eeh-ihn...glad that phrase is in a chorus in a song somewhere)

343. The Microphones "The Glow" (better now. perhaps they should now be called The Neumanns?)

342. Franz Ferdinand "Do You Want To" (they were one of my first clues that dance/post-punk was making any sort of revival on the mainstream radar during this decade. why didn't they get bigger than The Killers stateside? a much better update of The Cars for Gen Y)

341. Fleet Foxes "Blue Ridge Mountains" (i have spent the better part of a year chewing on this band from afar and it wasn't until the word "baroque" connected a few of the dots that i found some appreciation, especially if i can connect this sound to those old vinyl sleeves with sun faded photos of bearded guys in earth shoes and that curly acid-hit font. sure, ok, i'm a late adopter.)

340. Herbert "Something Isn't Right" (Herbert isn't exactly the first marketing idea i'd have for a lounge-hop identifier. but it still makes me feel like 10am cocktails 'round an outdoor pool overlooking the san fernando valley)

339. Sonic Youth "The Empty Page" (this song makes blatantly obvious the jim o'rourke influence on wilco records)

338. The Decemberists "O Valencia!" (colin meloy was once compared to a braying donkey, and i can't seem to get that connection out of my head every time i heard the decemberists)

337. The National "Mistaken for Strangers" (good to see a midwest band making good doing interpol doing joy division doing leonard cohen)

336. Röyksopp "Eple" (i personally don't mind that this is the type of thing one hear's as one shops at aeropostale. i think it's quite tasty)

335. Max Tundra "MBGATE" (too glitchy for me. if i were listening to this in my car, i'd think the disc was scratched and throw it out the passenger window)

334. Grizzly Bear "While You Wait for the Others" (grizzly bear are just another baroque blip on the pile of MMJ-inspired relic rock. this track does nothing to take away from that position)

333. Death Cab for Cutie "A Movie Script Ending" (death cab was one of those bands i'd heard about since the beginning when my friend trey started booking for them. i never thought they'd get big. boy was i ever wrong, huh)

332. Aeroplane [ft. Kathy Diamond] "Whispers" (aeroplane never fails to put out good autobahn music)

331. Andrew Bird "Fake Palindromes" (usually a hit or miss, andrew bird. this song is kind of a hit. i appreciate his multi-instrumental talents more than his actual output)

330. The Roots [ft. Cody Chestnutt] "The Seed 2.0" (best roots song i've heard)

329. Caribou "Hendrix With KO" (good saturday afternoon music. iced green tea. kites. bay breeze.)

328. Isolée "Schrapnell" (good saturday evening music. vodka tonic. axe body spray. LA Looks gel.)

327. Vampire Weekend "Walcott" (the authenticity of this afro-pop hybrid genre loses a degree of "something" when the players are rumored to be trust fundies. still, an interesting pastiche)

326. Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Cheated Hearts" (can't really bring myself to do cartwheels over this song or this band. not horrible. much better as an entire concept, visual and audio)

325. Sean Paul "Like Glue" (jamaican music always sounds so happy no matter what its about)

324. The Twilight Sad "Cold Days From the Birdhouse" (i want to like the twilight sad, but they opened for us in norfolk and then left before we finished our first song. so yeah, i need to get over myself)

323. The Rapture "I Need Your Love" (it seems the rapture got a lot of flack for hopping on the dancepunkdisco thing five years ago, but this is probably one of the more interesting sounds to come out of it)

322. Wu-Tang Clan "Uzi (Pinky Ring)" (i suppose i should feel some degree of keep-it-rill when i listen to the clan, but i guess it's just not my scene)

321. Four Tet "Smile Around the Face" (fun. about 90 sec too long, but fun)

320. Ciara "Promise" (very sexy song. shah-day-EE!)

319. Guided by Voices "Chasing Heather Crazy" (GBV songs invariably have a less than stellar payoff. they kind of meander in a cloud of jangle until bob pollard does a big leg kick and ends the song)

318. The Notwist "One With the Freaks" (song did absolutely nothing for me)

317. Squarepusher "My Red Hot Car" (such an iconic warp song from the decade. glad it was included)

316. Neko Case "Hold On, Hold On" (the best neko case song of the decade that i've heard. included it on some mixes last year)

315. Ratatat "17 Years" (just below interesting. mix filler)

314. Metro Area "Miura" (yeah, this is more like it. rainy house...feelin the midnight drizzle)

313. The Wrens "She Sends Kisses" (one of the flash in the pot indie darlings i missed the boat on. better than what i thought was getting but not stellar)

312. The Go! Team "Ladyflash" (happy sunny froehlich as the germans would say)

I'm surprised Hendrix with KO isn't higher.

alas, soulwax and lcd= part of the same crew.
now you know.

how are the dewaele brothers and james murphy part of the same crew?

they both have been with the same starfuckers?

They toured together at least once. I think they've done remixes of each other's stuff as well. That's all I know.

311. Sticky [ft. Ms. Dynamite] "Booo!" (i'll be an old man, still lovin this grime shite)

310. Okkervil River "For Real" (folk rock indistinguishable from the rest...)

309. Midlake "Roscoe" (...yet for some reason, this song is absolutely wonderful, despite being of similar ilk. constant rotation in recent years.)

308. Gorillaz "Feel Good Inc." (hard to appreciate without accompanying cartoon characters)

307. Wolf Parade "Shine a Light" (bland oatmill performed by uber-elites with a synth)

306. Dr. Dre [ft. Kurupt, Snoop Dogg, and Nate Dogg] "Portland, Oregon" (lots of radio edits here. do WHAT everyday?)

305. Loretta Lynn [ft. Jack White] "Portland, Oregon" (a song about organ! whaddyaknow. neat cross-generational matchup. don't know why i didnt' hop on this earlier)

304. Destroyer "The Sublimation Hour" (kickass name. blandass game)

303. Mystikal "Shake Ya Ass" (refreshing street philosopher pontificating on the trials and tribulations of his bacchanalian lifestyle. also wants to know if you would shake your arse so he can look at it.)

302. Black Dice "Cone Toaster" (robots with indigestion. i do like this.)

301. The Shins "Kissing the Lipless" (natalie portman said the shins would change my life, and thus it remains the only thing she could tell me that i wouldn't accept with a heavy-lidded and smitten <i>amore</i> face )

300. Iron & Wine "Upward Over the Mountain" (despite its folkiness, song gets under my skin and tickles my sad bone)

299. CSS "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above" (CSS has so much style. see what i did there?)

298. Stars Your Ex-Lover Is Dead" (lovely orchestrations)

297. David Byrne and Brian Eno "Strange Overtones" (unmistakeable byrne croon, but flying over an above average porn soundtrack)

296. Johnny Cash "The Man Comes Around" (holy shit this song is all kinds of awesome. may have to get this album)

295. Grandaddy "The Crystal Lake" (this is the song i remember when i think of grandaddy. thats all.)

294. Constantines "Night Time (Anytime It's All Right)" (feel free to flame, but this is sounding like a spectacular mix of fugazi and springsteen)

293. Aphex Twin "Avril 14th" (sums up my study music selection for the fall semester of my second to last year of college)

292. Deerhunter "Spring Hall Convert" (i'm too hyper for this)

291. Missy Elliott "Pass That Dutch" (good lord i can't stands no more)

290. The Exploding Hearts "Modern Kicks" (raunchy. somewhat convincing nostalgia trip back to the good ol days when all we had to stick through our noses were rusty safety pins)

289. PJ Harvey "Good Fortune" (the ex used to ascribe this song to me back in happier years. sigh)

288. Fabolous "Breathe" (i wrote a song called breathe once. i like my version better)

287. Chromatics "In the City" (must be some sort of naples plato's retreat where all this italo-disco is coming from)

286. ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead "Another Morning Stoner" (ah, 2002 i miss you)

285. Ryan Adams "Come Pick Me Up" (alt-country guy doing the brooks n dunn thing. puketastic. add a B to the R and you'll change that D to an A)

284. Wiley "Wearing My Rolex" (sounds like a moby song, in a way, as it were)

283. Godspeed You Black Emperor! "Storm" [First Movement] (i have always liked this ensemble. darkly sublime. moving. like darren aronofsky-flavored ice cream )

282. Luomo "The Present Lover" [Digital Disco version] (the kind of music that plays in bars decked out to look like ice caves)

281. The Books "Take Time" (boringly quirky 4-track wanking, or it would seem so)

280. The Fiery Furnaces "Here Comes the Summer" (i've always wanted to like FF, but they lose me every time. i think they got tagged as progressive once, and i'm not hearing it)

279. Alan Braxe and Fred Falke "Rubicon" (80s talk show walk-on music. oh rege!)

278. Madvillain "America's Most Blunted" (hip hop guys smoke weed. in other news, the president is black)

277. Earth "Coda Maestoso in F (Flat) Minor" (yesss.....Yesss........YESSSSSSSSS....)

276. The Darkness "I Believe in a Thing Called Love" (this was a good, funny idea when it came out in 03. probably made them a little ass-pocket full o money. its all good)

275. Broken Social Scene "Stars and Sons" (need to absorb more of this band. heard the seminal hits and they bring me much joy)

274. The MFA "The Difference It Makes (Superpitcher Remix)" (good song for flying weightlessly through some sort of ion tunnel in space)

273. Smog "Dress Sexy at My Funeral" (is that really too much to ask?)

272. Nas "One Mic" (all i need is one mic. and this paddle game, the mic, the ashtray and the paddle game and that's all I need. and this remote control. the mic, the ashtray, the paddle game, and the remote control, and that's all I need.)

271. Arcade Fire "Intervention" (guys voice still reminds me of the montreal anthems of 05)

270. Damian Marley "Welcome to Jamrock" (thank god this had some vinyl hiss. i hate squeaky clean classic reggae homages)

269. The Decemberists "The Engine Driver" (12 string geetar is the best thing about this track)

268. Common "The Light" (wow a whole song went by and i didn't realize)

Holy crap, Dr. Dre covered Loretta Lynn!?

That and Throw Some D's on it were pretty funny.

haha good eye. i caught that soon after i posted it but was too lazy to change it

i changed my mind, welcome to jamrock should have been the number one song of the decade.

The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 200-151

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lis ... s-200-151/

i'll pick this back up as soon as work starts to calm down

"Jitterstep"

"Zilchcore"

Are these real?

wow i really don't like too many of the albums on the list so far.

no

i know this list is not very exciting but this is obner and should have some opinions about it. my thoughts to jump start this a little bit:

the first thing that sticks out to me is how unexciting this list is so far, some of these albums don't seem to belong in the best albums from this decade list. so are the 2000's the worst music decade we have ever had post Elvis? not sure if Pitchfork's only three albums per artists is a good idea. if Radiohead, Animal Collective and so on have four albums that deserve to be on this list than why exclude one or more of those albums?

my top ten from 151 - 200 are:

1. Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy
2. Bright Eyes - Fevers and Mirrors
3. Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
4. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
5. Air - Talkie Walkie
6. Pulp - We Love Life
7. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
8. Annie - Anniemal
9. Constantines - Shine a Light
10. Vitalic - OK Cowboy

looking forward to tomorrows selections.

Not trying to attack you or even belittle this exercise by PFork but why would it really be exciting? I actually think it's interesting that this will be the first full decade of the internet and as such just about all the albums that will be on this list have been discussed on most music blogs and message boards around the world. There should be no surprises. I'm still semi-interested in how it plays out though.

As for this being the worst music decade ever since Elvis I couldn't disagree more vehemently. I think the internet has given tons of bands the opportunity to have careers and get their music out there that would've most likely have disappeared into the ether pre-internet. As such, I think music has actually fractured into subcultures that have produced lots of interesting things.

Also, several bands that I am pretty passionate about have come out of this decade.

I think by the time this thing gets to #1 you'll be changing your tune.

Unsurprising would be one of the last put-downs I'd make of this list. I don't really have any expectations of what a pitchfork top 200 of the 00's should look like as I really have never been a pitchfork follower. I've only heard 6 of these albums - 3 of which I like to some degree and 3 which are varying degrees of meh to awful.

I don't really care to argue whether the 00's is the worst decade of music since Elvis came on the scene or not. It might be but that doesn't mean there's not lots of good stuff that came out in the 00's. If I were to judge the 90's by pitchfork's top 100's of the 90's list, I might think the 90's were at least equally bad. But I know better, there was lots of good stuff that came out in the 90's too. Neither decade's music resonates as strongly with me as that of the 70's, 60's, and 80's. I'm not going to put down a whole decade of music though. If you can't find stuff you like from any decade, you aren't looking very hard.

The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s: 150-101

http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lis ... 0s-150-101