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 Russia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Average White Band to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 This Heat. All the underground hits.
All Robert Görl tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe 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 oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Young Rascals,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bob Dylan,
The Doors,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Circle Jerks,
Gichy Dan,
Porter Ricks,
Fugazi,
Von Mondo,
Barclay James Harvest,
Electric Prunes,
Hardrive,
Ituana,
Skriet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Camberwell Now,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Wire,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ultravox,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Donny Hathaway,
The Walker Brothers,
the Slits,
Deadbeat,
Mary Jane Girls,
Joe Smooth,
Nik Kershaw,
The Fortunes,
Subhumans,
Flash Fearless,
Lakeside,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dennis Brown,
Sonic Youth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Blancmange,
The Divine Comedy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Zeros,
Jesper Dahlback,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Nirvana,
Magma,
Eric B and Rakim,
Brothers Johnson,
Suicide,
Unrelated Segments,
Ten City,
Lyres,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Interpol,
John Cale,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Lydon,
Amon Düül,
Flamin' Groovies,
Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub, Stereo Dub.
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.