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 Laos and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Zeros to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 X-101. All the underground hits.
All Moby Grape tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ 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 marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Althea and Donna,
Quando Quango,
Model 500,
Nirvana,
Freddie Wadling,
Gang Starr,
Flash Fearless,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mantronix,
Rakim,
Crispian St. Peters,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Fluxion,
Mary Jane Girls,
Talk Talk,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Sound,
Morten Harket,
Lightning Bolt,
Jacob Miller,
Rekid,
Pet Shop Boys,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Saints,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Fire Engines,
Y Pants,
La Düsseldorf,
Half Japanese,
Faraquet,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Brothers Johnson,
Marvin Gaye,
The Litter,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Golliwogs,
Intrusion,
JFA,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bauhaus,
Kurtis Blow,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Gichy Dan,
Rotary Connection,
Sister Nancy,
Agitation Free,
Hashim,
Gang Gang Dance,
Peter & Gordon,
Ken Boothe,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
the Human League,
Joey Negro,
The Seeds,
Country Teasers,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.