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 Italy and from Cairo.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar 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 Skaos to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Groovy Waters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum 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 harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Basic Channel,
The Gap Band,
The Vogues,
Moss Icon,
The Tremeloes,
Gabor Szabo,
Fatback Band,
Buzzcocks,
Radio Birdman,
The J.B.'s,
Traffic Nightmare,
Qualms,
David Bowie,
This Heat,
Rapeman,
Franke,
Easy Going,
Cecil Taylor,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Y Pants,
Byron Stingily,
The Human League,
Skriet,
Oneida,
Crooked Eye,
Mantronix,
Blancmange,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Cybotron,
Porter Ricks,
Maleditus Sound,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Sherman,
K-Klass,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Joy Division,
Nico,
Sparks,
Eric B and Rakim,
Kayak,
Erykah Badu,
The Black Dice,
Freddie Wadling,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sex Pistols,
The Monks,
Interpol,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mandrill,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Electric Prunes,
OOIOO,
New Age Steppers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
X-101,
Average White Band,
The Shadows of Knight,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.