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 India and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the theremin 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 Darondo to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ohio Players. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord 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 a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Maleditus Sound,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Loose Ends,
Cluster,
Dawn Penn,
Scion,
CMW,
Lucky Dragons,
The Associates,
Matthew Bourne,
Junior Murvin,
Au Pairs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Oblivians,
Stetsasonic,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Johnny Clarke,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Quadrant,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nirvana,
K-Klass,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ultra Naté,
Easy Going,
Severed Heads,
Black Flag,
Marine Girls,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Velvet Underground,
Nico,
Silicon Teens,
Erykah Badu,
Rotary Connection,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reagan Youth,
Zero Boys,
Ituana,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Laurel Aitken,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Skriet,
Nas,
Deakin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Prince Buster,
Andrew Hill,
FM Einheit,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Davy DMX,
Scientists,
Alton Ellis,
Basic Channel,
Grey Daturas,
Index,
Marmalade,
Camouflage,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.