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 Belgium and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 the Slits to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Royal Family And The Poor. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Bang On A Can,
Ornette Coleman,
Siglo XX,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Fire Engines,
The New Christs,
Brick,
Moss Icon,
Adolescents,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Schoolly D,
Danielle Patucci,
Aloha Tigers,
Young Marble Giants,
Rod Modell,
Basic Channel,
Ituana,
kango's stein massive,
MDC,
Panda Bear,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Amazonics,
Half Japanese,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Monks,
Derrick Morgan,
the Bar-Kays,
Gang of Four,
Section 25,
Delon & Dalcan,
Can,
Qualms,
Byron Stingily,
Amon Düül II,
The Motions,
Icehouse,
AZ,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Stockholm Monsters,
James White and The Blacks,
Ossler,
Ultimate Spinach,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
KRS-One,
Soft Cell,
Swell Maps,
Black Bananas,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jeff Mills,
The Fall,
Grandmaster Flash,
Loose Ends,
Average White Band,
Deakin,
Magazine,
Man Parrish,
Sonny Sharrock,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes, Mo-Dettes.
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.