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 Azerbaijan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Harmonia to the punk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Toasters. All the underground hits.
All Rod Modell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare 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 spring reverb and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Human League,
Neil Young,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Names,
Ten City,
Black Flag,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Blues Magoos,
The Move,
Youth Brigade,
Silicon Teens,
Laurel Aitken,
Cecil Taylor,
Radiopuhelimet,
Jeff Lynne,
The Remains,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Doors,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Von Mondo,
Tim Buckley,
John Cale,
DJ Style,
Scratch Acid,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Albert Ayler,
the Fania All-Stars,
Rakim,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Johnny Osbourne,
Parry Music,
Jandek,
Joensuu 1685,
Wolf Eyes,
Jeru the Damaja,
Smog,
CMW,
Anthony Braxton,
The Pretty Things,
Gang Green,
Joe Smooth,
New Order,
The Residents,
Inner City,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Con Funk Shun,
Popol Vuh,
Ultravox,
Shuggie Otis,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Half Japanese,
Eli Mardock,
Minor Threat,
Circle Jerks,
Country Teasers,
Alton Ellis,
The Associates,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.