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 Nepal and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Pole to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gong. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry Gold Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes 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 synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scientists,
Godley & Creme,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Camouflage,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Anthony Braxton,
48th St. Collective,
Oneida,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ituana,
The Happenings,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Todd Terry,
10cc,
Theoretical Girls,
Thompson Twins,
Eddi Front,
Rod Modell,
Ultravox,
Panda Bear,
Joyce Sims,
Fugazi,
E-Dancer,
Echospace,
Soul Sonic Force,
June of 44,
The Mojo Men,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Basic Channel,
Crooked Eye,
Chrome,
Hashim,
Sight & Sound,
CMW,
The Skatalites,
David McCallum,
Banda Bassotti,
Idris Muhammad,
Henry Cow,
Howard Jones,
The Golliwogs,
Max Romeo,
the Normal,
Tropical Tobacco,
Procol Harum,
Skaos,
Fluxion,
Hasil Adkins,
Piero Umiliani,
Laurel Aitken,
Accadde A,
James White and The Blacks,
The Velvet Underground,
Trumans Water,
Japan,
Shuggie Otis,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
La Düsseldorf,
Radiohead,
New Order,
Scott Walker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.