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 Kuwait and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Flipper to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Sugar Minott tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 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 marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Trojans,
Funkadelic,
the Swans,
The Five Americans,
Slick Rick,
Country Teasers,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Franke,
Anthony Braxton,
Gong,
Amon Düül II,
David Axelrod,
Anakelly,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Kinks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lakeside,
Parry Music,
Jeff Mills,
Colin Newman,
Robert Wyatt,
The Flesh Eaters,
F. McDonald,
Roger Hodgson,
Deakin,
Model 500,
Bizarre Inc.,
Arthur Verocai,
Cluster,
MC5,
The Monks,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Rekid,
Peter & Gordon,
The Zeros,
Bobby Womack,
Prince Buster,
Nico,
Eli Mardock,
The Cowsills,
Rotary Connection,
John Coltrane,
Absolute Body Control,
The Monochrome Set,
Todd Terry,
The Grass Roots,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jacob Miller,
Brick,
In Retrospect,
Adolescents,
OOIOO,
Television Personalities,
China Crisis,
Lebanon Hanover,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.