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 Sudan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Alphaville to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Harmonia. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Sherman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Womack record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a marimba 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 snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
R.M.O.,
Lindisfarne,
Pagans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Visage,
Tubeway Army,
Half Japanese,
Eurythmics,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ossler,
The Vogues,
Flash Fearless,
Soft Cell,
Suburban Knight,
MC5,
Jacques Brel,
Arcadia,
The Slackers,
The Selecter,
Tomorrow,
Terrestrial Tones,
Mars,
Outsiders,
Banda Bassotti,
Frankie Knuckles,
Fela Kuti,
Malaria!,
Hasil Adkins,
The Doobie Brothers,
Bush Tetras,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sight & Sound,
Gil Scott Heron,
The American Breed,
Ituana,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
F. McDonald,
Iggy Pop,
Warren Ellis,
The Divine Comedy,
Harmonia,
Technova,
Peter & Gordon,
Tres Demented,
Supertramp,
Lakeside,
Black Pus,
Oneida,
The Human League,
Bobby Sherman,
Marcia Griffiths,
The United States of America,
Bronski Beat,
Lalann,
Eddi Front,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Fortunes,
Magma,
Quantec,
Ultra Naté,
The Remains, The Remains, The Remains, The Remains.
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.