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 Oman and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Cairo.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Oppenheimer Analysis to the jazz 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Black Moon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dead Boys 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb 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 güiro and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q65,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Echospace,
Nico,
X-102,
Mad Mike,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Darondo,
Stereo Dub,
The Sonics,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sugar Minott,
Albert Ayler,
The Real Kids,
The Motions,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
KRS-One,
Kenny Larkin,
The Dead C,
Bobby Byrd,
Todd Rundgren,
Erykah Badu,
Andrew Hill,
Soul Sonic Force,
Pulsallama,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gories,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Fugazi,
Thee Headcoats,
Freddie Wadling,
Angry Samoans,
Lalo Schifrin,
Alice Coltrane,
Junior Murvin,
the Fania All-Stars,
Blake Baxter,
Graham Central Station,
Lower 48,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Robert Wyatt,
Lakeside,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Matthew Halsall,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Pantytec,
John Cale,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Grass Roots,
Vainqueur,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Joe Finger,
These Immortal Souls,
Bluetip,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.