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 Barbados and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in 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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Zeros to the rap 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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Oneida tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a snare 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 güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Black Flag,
The Cramps,
Idris Muhammad,
Cal Tjader,
Amon Düül II,
Faust,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Blossom Toes,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bobby Womack,
Eurythmics,
Inner City,
Duran Duran,
Monks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Dirtbombs,
Oblivians,
Alice Coltrane,
Stockholm Monsters,
T.S.O.L.,
Tears for Fears,
Skarface,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
DJ Style,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Radiopuhelimet,
Country Teasers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cluster,
Fela Kuti,
Index,
Yaz,
Sällskapet,
The Gap Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Fad Gadget,
Al Stewart,
The Music Machine,
Scratch Acid,
Skriet,
X-Ray Spex,
Grey Daturas,
Sun City Girls,
Oneida,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
cv313,
Bobby Sherman,
Pagans,
Erykah Badu,
Skaos,
The Dead C,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Arcadia,
Reagan Youth,
Loose Ends,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wolf Eyes,
John Cale,
The Young Rascals,
Magazine,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.