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 Greece and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Fugazi to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Moss Icon. All the underground hits.
All Robert Wyatt tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick Morgan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Howard Jones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
Spandau Ballet,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Evens,
Faraquet,
Bill Near,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
ABBA,
Idris Muhammad,
Jawbox,
The Gap Band,
UT,
Rakim,
Brothers Johnson,
EPMD,
Blossom Toes,
Radiohead,
Flipper,
LL Cool J,
Isaac Hayes,
Average White Band,
The Gladiators,
Terry Callier,
The Seeds,
Slave,
Circle Jerks,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Japan,
Harry Pussy,
Spoonie Gee,
CMW,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Loose Ends,
Wire,
Ultimate Spinach,
Yellowson,
Eric Copeland,
Television,
Soft Machine,
Camberwell Now,
The Vogues,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Unrelated Segments,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scratch Acid,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joey Negro,
8 Eyed Spy,
Matthew Bourne,
Fat Boys,
Altered Images,
Camouflage,
The Beau Brummels,
Sandy B,
Symarip,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Music Machine,
James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions, James Chance & The Contortions.
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.