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 Thailand and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba 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 Fluxion to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator 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 synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Man Eating Sloth,
China Crisis,
The Remains,
Josef K,
The Gories,
Panda Bear,
The Walker Brothers,
Kurtis Blow,
Duran Duran,
Gerry Rafferty,
Guru Guru,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Flesh Eaters,
Scientists,
Groovy Waters,
Stockholm Monsters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
UT,
Q65,
The Gladiators,
Khruangbin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Moleskins,
Icehouse,
Althea and Donna,
Fear,
Jandek,
Brick,
the Association,
Rekid,
The Seeds,
Swell Maps,
Country Teasers,
John Cale,
Bronski Beat,
Soulsonic Force,
Erasure,
Bluetip,
Jesper Dahlback,
Cecil Taylor,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cluster,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Skaos,
Essential Logic,
Eli Mardock,
Lou Reed,
The Monks,
Jeru the Damaja,
the Germs,
Black Pus,
The Sound,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joey Negro,
Unrelated Segments,
Lower 48,
Stetsasonic,
Terry Callier,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.