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 Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 In Retrospect to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and an oboe 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 chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Make Up,
Leonard Cohen,
Joensuu 1685,
Soulsonic Force,
Lalann,
Bob Dylan,
Flash Fearless,
cv313,
Franke,
Dark Day,
Quantec,
Sonic Youth,
Fad Gadget,
Ludus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Donny Hathaway,
The Skatalites,
Y Pants,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Cameo,
K-Klass,
Zero Boys,
Laurel Aitken,
Albert Ayler,
Jacques Brel,
Sam Rivers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Half Japanese,
Don Cherry,
Sight & Sound,
Heaven 17,
Brick,
Eli Mardock,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Popol Vuh,
Talk Talk,
Tears for Fears,
Inner City,
Hashim,
Los Fastidios,
Wally Richardson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Tim Buckley,
Pierre Henry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Cale,
Maleditus Sound,
Roy Ayers,
Piero Umiliani,
The Pop Group,
World's Most,
The Kinks,
The Cramps,
Main Source,
Andrew Hill,
Eve St. Jones,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gong,
Stetsasonic,
Underground Resistance,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.