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 Japan and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Swell Maps to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 48th St. Collective. All the underground hits.
All Trumans Water tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Toasters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 clarinet and a rhodes 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 synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The United States of America,
The Real Kids,
Joe Finger,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Carl Craig,
The Count Five,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nas,
The Remains,
The Knickerbockers,
Yaz,
Rites of Spring,
Eric Copeland,
The Pretty Things,
Minnie Riperton,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Model 500,
Goldenarms,
The Blues Magoos,
Dead Boys,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
a-ha,
Steve Hackett,
the Normal,
Hot Snakes,
Magazine,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Toasters,
Bad Manners,
Tommy Roe,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Al Stewart,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Walker Brothers,
Whodini,
The Evens,
Jacob Miller,
Little Man,
Sexual Harrassment,
Shoche,
Tom Boy,
Dave Gahan,
Grey Daturas,
Grandmaster Flash,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Bronski Beat,
In Retrospect,
T. Rex,
Vladislav Delay,
LL Cool J,
New Age Steppers,
Cameo,
Wasted Youth,
Boogie Down Productions,
Mark Hollis,
Aloha Tigers,
the Sonics,
Kayak,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.