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 Marshall Islands and from Woodstock.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the güiro 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 Underground Resistance to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Vladislav Delay. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Kaleidoscope,
The Smiths,
Prince Buster,
Oblivians,
Minor Threat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hardrive,
Oneida,
The Litter,
The Leaves,
T. Rex,
Audionom,
Alison Limerick,
Circle Jerks,
Anthony Braxton,
Q and Not U,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
La Düsseldorf,
Donny Hathaway,
Country Teasers,
the Normal,
Johnny Clarke,
Swell Maps,
David McCallum,
Tears for Fears,
Lindisfarne,
Gregory Isaacs,
Monks,
Scan 7,
Supertramp,
Quantec,
Altered Images,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ultra Naté,
Hasil Adkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Doors,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ossler,
Rosa Yemen,
Faraquet,
June of 44,
Slave,
Sound Behaviour,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The New Christs,
Jesper Dahlback,
Pantytec,
Chrome,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
LL Cool J,
The Busters,
FM Einheit,
The Cramps,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ice-T,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.