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 Iraq and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine to the electroclash 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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Harry Pussy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every These Immortal Souls 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum 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 linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Martian,
Lungfish,
The Blackbyrds,
Motorama,
Brass Construction,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Pus,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
David Axelrod,
Babytalk,
Chrome,
Gichy Dan,
Lower 48,
Young Marble Giants,
Bauhaus,
The Pop Group,
Animal Collective,
The Sound,
Colin Newman,
Electric Prunes,
Robert Hood,
Graham Central Station,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Niagra,
Ronnie Foster,
Quando Quango,
Bluetip,
Magazine,
Rosa Yemen,
The Red Krayola,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Yusef Lateef,
LL Cool J,
Joy Division,
Faraquet,
Fugazi,
The Pretty Things,
The Five Americans,
Marvin Gaye,
Crooked Eye,
Groovy Waters,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Names,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Joe Finger,
The Residents,
The Slits,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Knickerbockers,
Patti Smith,
Anthony Braxton,
Hot Snakes,
Moss Icon,
Sonny Sharrock,
Absolute Body Control,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Massinfluence,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.