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 Grenada and from Lille.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 Unrelated Segments to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer 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 marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rosa Yemen,
X-Ray Spex,
Warsaw,
Moss Icon,
Pantytec,
Jeff Lynne,
Scratch Acid,
Warren Ellis,
David Axelrod,
Magazine,
The Smoke,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Easy Going,
DJ Sneak,
Fad Gadget,
Radiohead,
MC5,
Deepchord,
Sonic Youth,
Can,
Tomorrow,
Thee Headcoats,
Excepter,
The Saints,
Sister Nancy,
Derrick Morgan,
Zero Boys,
the Slits,
Soul II Soul,
Silicon Teens,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nils Olav,
Angry Samoans,
Jimmy McGriff,
Altered Images,
Shuggie Otis,
The Buckinghams,
Groovy Waters,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jacques Brel,
Swell Maps,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Ultravox,
Eurythmics,
Janne Schatter,
Dave Gahan,
The Doobie Brothers,
Swans,
the Normal,
The Moleskins,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Litter,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sexual Harrassment,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Goldenarms,
Alphaville,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.