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 Haiti and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 rhodes 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 Thee Headcoats to the punk 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Radiopuhelimet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator 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 mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Sixth Finger,
Max Romeo,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Young Marble Giants,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Mojo Men,
Qualms,
Funkadelic,
Kas Product,
The Slackers,
Echospace,
Avey Tare,
Mission of Burma,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Babytalk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bush Tetras,
Dorothy Ashby,
The American Breed,
The Standells,
Jandek,
Aural Exciters,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Monochrome Set,
Man Parrish,
Maleditus Sound,
Barry Ungar,
Jesper Dahlback,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Velvet Underground,
Roger Hodgson,
Essential Logic,
Darondo,
Danielle Patucci,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Leonard Cohen,
Half Japanese,
Simply Red,
The Barracudas,
Moss Icon,
Eric Copeland,
Severed Heads,
Patti Smith,
John Lydon,
Eli Mardock,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Golliwogs,
Joe Finger,
Anakelly,
Khruangbin,
Fela Kuti,
Sight & Sound,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Sällskapet,
Crime,
Masters at Work,
Bad Manners,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Cecil Taylor,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.