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 Russia and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 New Order to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Wally Richardson. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kaleidoscope 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a harpsichord 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 guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Bar-Kays,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Saints,
The Vogues,
The Barracudas,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Move,
Section 25,
A Certain Ratio,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Theoretical Girls,
Alphaville,
Harmonia,
Suburban Knight,
Visage,
Peter & Gordon,
The Techniques,
Mr. Review,
Swell Maps,
Shoche,
Massinfluence,
Gang Green,
Von Mondo,
Porter Ricks,
Howard Jones,
Amazonics,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
John Holt,
Skarface,
New Age Steppers,
David Axelrod,
Jandek,
Jimmy McGriff,
Youth Brigade,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Moebius,
The Beau Brummels,
the Fania All-Stars,
Warren Ellis,
Kenny Larkin,
The Gap Band,
Sarah Menescal,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Dennis Brown,
Todd Rundgren,
Franke,
Zapp,
Mad Mike,
Symarip,
Carl Craig,
The Selecter,
Jawbox,
Country Teasers,
Darondo,
Bauhaus,
Bluetip,
ABC,
Big Daddy Kane,
Chris & Cosey,
The Gladiators,
Joensuu 1685,
Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near, Bill Near.
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.