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 Italy and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Art of Noise show in London.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Wire. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gerry Rafferty record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin 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 rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Kerri Chandler,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Toasters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Severed Heads,
Andrew Hill,
Minnie Riperton,
Vainqueur,
Neil Young,
Byron Stingily,
Todd Terry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Todd Rundgren,
Negative Approach,
D'Angelo,
Joyce Sims,
Ossler,
Trumans Water,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
Al Stewart,
Slick Rick,
Black Moon,
Jimmy McGriff,
Eve St. Jones,
Kas Product,
Maleditus Sound,
Khruangbin,
Danielle Patucci,
Masters at Work,
Bauhaus,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mo-Dettes,
The Velvet Underground,
Thompson Twins,
Peter and Kerry,
Bobby Sherman,
Scratch Acid,
The Black Dice,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Sound,
Jacob Miller,
Arthur Verocai,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Colin Newman,
Soul II Soul,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Grass Roots,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shuggie Otis,
The Angels of Light,
The Monks,
Tom Boy,
Black Sheep,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Y Pants,
Josef K,
Nas,
Spoonie Gee,
Rites of Spring,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.