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 Stockholm.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1976 at the first Wire practice in a loft in Watford.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Robert Görl to the crunk 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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar 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 mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Arab on Radar,
Michelle Simonal,
The Gun Club,
Derrick Morgan,
Sonic Youth,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gabor Szabo,
Hasil Adkins,
Circle Jerks,
The Black Dice,
Stereo Dub,
The Real Kids,
Crash Course in Science,
Loose Ends,
Surgeon,
The Searchers,
Rhythm & Sound,
Stiv Bators,
Mad Mike,
Grauzone,
The New Christs,
Roxette,
The Leaves,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Metal Thangz,
Camouflage,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Deepchord,
Jerry's Kids,
Mission of Burma,
Harpers Bizarre,
MC5,
Cybotron,
Television,
The Five Americans,
Black Sheep,
Mr. Review,
Mantronix,
Anthony Braxton,
Underground Resistance,
Minor Threat,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Vainqueur,
Boredoms,
Johnny Clarke,
The Tremeloes,
Mo-Dettes,
Brass Construction,
Minnie Riperton,
Jandek,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flamin' Groovies,
the Germs,
The Star Department,
Tom Boy,
Roger Hodgson,
Connie Case,
Davy DMX,
Buzzcocks,
Dead Boys,
The Misunderstood,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.