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 Argentina and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the güiro 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 Scion to the techno 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All The Move tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boogie Down Productions 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum 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 guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxy Music,
Mandrill,
Altered Images,
Girls At Our Best!,
Saccharine Trust,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Cramps,
The Neon Judgement,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
Ludus,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Althea and Donna,
The Victims,
Mad Mike,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kenny Larkin,
Section 25,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Moby Grape,
Sonny Sharrock,
Von Mondo,
the Slits,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Brass Construction,
Cecil Taylor,
China Crisis,
Ossler,
Ohio Players,
Rekid,
Buzzcocks,
The Alarm Clocks,
Be Bop Deluxe,
ABC,
Sight & Sound,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Radio Birdman,
Pierre Henry,
Desert Stars,
Moss Icon,
Talk Talk,
Zero Boys,
Bobby Sherman,
Jeff Mills,
Amazonics,
Ultravox,
Johnny Clarke,
Television,
The Golliwogs,
Pagans,
Angry Samoans,
The Modern Lovers,
This Heat,
Jerry's Kids,
Funkadelic,
The Monks,
The Selecter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
DJ Style,
Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp., Glambeats Corp..
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.