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 Djibouti and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the guitar 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 Sun City Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Gabor Szabo. All the underground hits.
All Ossler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anakelly,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
Livin' Joy,
Quadrant,
Eddi Front,
ABBA,
The Five Americans,
Ohio Players,
Saccharine Trust,
Yusef Lateef,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joyce Sims,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lalo Schifrin,
Suburban Knight,
Peter & Gordon,
Dead Boys,
New York Dolls,
Janne Schatter,
10cc,
Subhumans,
Anthony Braxton,
Vainqueur,
Connie Case,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Newcleus,
Pulsallama,
Skaos,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Slits,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wally Richardson,
Arcadia,
Intrusion,
Sarah Menescal,
Lee Hazlewood,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Laurel Aitken,
Q65,
Jacob Miller,
The Velvet Underground,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Dark Day,
The Cure,
Minnie Riperton,
Erykah Badu,
Thee Headcoats,
Accadde A,
Das Ding,
Black Sheep,
Supertramp,
Slave,
Spoonie Gee,
Section 25,
Dave Gahan,
Piero Umiliani,
Sparks,
Qualms,
Kaleidoscope,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.