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 South Sudan and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 808 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 ABC to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 synthesizer and a linndrum 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 spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Beau Brummels,
Oneida,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Brick,
Pantytec,
Das Ding,
The Music Machine,
Scientists,
Michelle Simonal,
Cybotron,
Blake Baxter,
Junior Murvin,
Nas,
Niagra,
Sight & Sound,
Kas Product,
Radiohead,
Pussy Galore,
Big Daddy Kane,
Crime,
Hasil Adkins,
Au Pairs,
Stereo Dub,
Black Bananas,
Minnie Riperton,
the Normal,
Buzzcocks,
The Mojo Men,
The Slits,
Sound Behaviour,
Eurythmics,
B.T. Express,
Crash Course in Science,
Agitation Free,
Matthew Halsall,
The Slackers,
Easy Going,
Carl Craig,
Technova,
Bootsy Collins,
The Mummies,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Intrusion,
The Buckinghams,
Morten Harket,
The Sound,
Clear Light,
Roxy Music,
Gabor Szabo,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ossler,
The Walker Brothers,
Harry Pussy,
Yellowson,
The Alarm Clocks,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Judy Mowatt,
Pantaleimon,
Sam Rivers,
Y Pants,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes, Justin Hinds & The Dominoes.
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.