Infinitely 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 from Greece and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Bootsy's Rubber Band to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All The Toasters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a L. Decosne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Todd Rundgren,
The Moody Blues,
Neu!,
Grauzone,
Minutemen,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hashim,
Mark Hollis,
X-101,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Jeru the Damaja,
Harmonia,
Davy DMX,
One Last Wish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gichy Dan,
Archie Shepp,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minor Threat,
Marine Girls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The United States of America,
Barbara Tucker,
David McCallum,
Saccharine Trust,
The Blues Magoos,
Judy Mowatt,
The Gladiators,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Stetsasonic,
Niagra,
Moby Grape,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Bauhaus,
the Human League,
Bob Dylan,
Young Marble Giants,
Trumans Water,
Isaac Hayes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Pere Ubu,
Thee Headcoats,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Popol Vuh,
Wally Richardson,
Loose Ends,
DNA,
Crime,
This Heat,
OOIOO,
Darondo,
Jacques Brel,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
DJ Style,
Byron Stingily,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Make Up,
Monks,
R.M.O.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls, These Immortal Souls.
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.