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 Micronesia and from Jakarta.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Kayak to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Red Krayola. All the underground hits.
All Minutemen tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet 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 guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Monolake,
Negative Approach,
Boogie Down Productions,
Ralphi Rosario,
Magazine,
Tres Demented,
Rakim,
Ultravox,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bobby Sherman,
Bobby Womack,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Connie Case,
The J.B.'s,
Nation of Ulysses,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Cure,
The Gories,
Eden Ahbez,
Roxette,
Ronnie Foster,
Gastr Del Sol,
the Slits,
Ponytail,
Eli Mardock,
Boz Scaggs,
Crooked Eye,
Fatback Band,
The Busters,
Ice-T,
Sam Rivers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Faust,
Outsiders,
Moss Icon,
The Pop Group,
Public Image Ltd.,
Symarip,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Normal,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moebius,
Tim Buckley,
Curtis Mayfield,
Matthew Halsall,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Martian,
Gang Green,
The Music Machine,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pole,
Lucky Dragons,
Godley & Creme,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
T. Rex,
the Swans,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.