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 Singapore and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Half Japanese to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Henry Cow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord 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 chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
John Foxx,
David Bowie,
Franke,
The Motions,
These Immortal Souls,
Average White Band,
Archie Shepp,
Shuggie Otis,
Little Man,
The Kinks,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
David McCallum,
Warsaw,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Pop Group,
David Axelrod,
Marmalade,
Yellowson,
Kerri Chandler,
Aaron Thompson,
Grauzone,
Gregory Isaacs,
Byron Stingily,
Fear,
Cheater Slicks,
Aloha Tigers,
Fugazi,
The Smoke,
China Crisis,
The Searchers,
Skarface,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Gastr Del Sol,
Japan,
Cecil Taylor,
Stiv Bators,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soulsonic Force,
Tomorrow,
Scrapy,
Ice-T,
The Dave Clark Five,
Hoover,
Depeche Mode,
Sparks,
Guru Guru,
Angry Samoans,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Ituana,
World's Most,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Slave,
JFA,
Roy Ayers,
Don Cherry,
Rod Modell,
Newcleus,
Gang of Four,
Jeff Lynne,
Amon Düül II,
Brothers Johnson,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.