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 Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
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 Altered Images to the grunge 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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fire Engines 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe 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 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
The Leaves,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Colin Newman,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Symarip,
Brothers Johnson,
ABC,
Don Cherry,
Hot Snakes,
Dark Day,
Tres Demented,
Roxette,
Basic Channel,
The Gap Band,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Rotary Connection,
Organ,
Von Mondo,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Audionom,
Alphaville,
Mars,
Lalo Schifrin,
Neu!,
Peter & Gordon,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Misunderstood,
Maurizio,
Lalann,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Mantronix,
Model 500,
Sandy B,
Laurel Aitken,
Surgeon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Star Department,
The Invisible,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Soft Cell,
The Last Poets,
Skaos,
Country Teasers,
Youth Brigade,
Rakim,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joensuu 1685,
Donald Byrd,
Robert Görl,
Rod Modell,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kerrie Biddell,
Roxy Music,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Beau Brummels,
Lee Hazlewood,
Alton Ellis,
Ponytail,
Lightning Bolt,
Angry Samoans,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.