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 Austria and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the sitar 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 Procol Harum to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Angry Samoans. All the underground hits.
All The Saints tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Echospace,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Marcia Griffiths,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Crime,
Lindisfarne,
T.S.O.L.,
Thee Headcoats,
Warren Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Associates,
Curtis Mayfield,
Peter and Kerry,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Golliwogs,
Howard Jones,
Q65,
The Vogues,
Marine Girls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Lee Hazlewood,
Swans,
Todd Rundgren,
Kerri Chandler,
Barry Ungar,
Black Moon,
Althea and Donna,
Rites of Spring,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Faust,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Cybotron,
The Wake,
Wally Richardson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Wings,
The Slits,
Big Daddy Kane,
Barrington Levy,
David Bowie,
The Monochrome Set,
ABC,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stetsasonic,
Jacob Miller,
Al Stewart,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Steve Hackett,
Pagans,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hot Snakes,
Magma,
Mandrill,
Goldenarms,
Television,
Babytalk,
F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald, F. McDonald.
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.