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 France and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Ken Boothe to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 La Düsseldorf. All the underground hits.
All Rosa Yemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terry Callier record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
U.S. Maple,
The Blackbyrds,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Eden Ahbez,
Angry Samoans,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barrington Levy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Steve Hackett,
Newcleus,
The Index,
David Bowie,
Con Funk Shun,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Cheater Slicks,
Duran Duran,
Talk Talk,
Crooked Eye,
Intrusion,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Average White Band,
Matthew Bourne,
Dual Sessions,
Eric Copeland,
Blancmange,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Scrapy,
Donny Hathaway,
Delta 5,
Slave,
DNA,
Dennis Brown,
Quadrant,
Laurel Aitken,
Danielle Patucci,
Thompson Twins,
Eurythmics,
Lou Christie,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Q65,
Neu!,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Lindisfarne,
Kayak,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Slick Rick,
X-102,
John Cale,
These Immortal Souls,
Animal Collective,
Guru Guru,
Rites of Spring,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Human League,
The Moleskins,
Jeff Lynne,
Funkadelic,
Half Japanese,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.