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 Kyrgyzstan and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar 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 Sandy B to the jazz 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 Bootsy Collins. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Massinfluence record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 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 guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rekid,
Vainqueur,
Crime,
DJ Style,
Toni Rubio,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Move,
Scion,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Index,
Lungfish,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Masters at Work,
Matthew Halsall,
Wire,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Skaos,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Offenders,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Swans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pantaleimon,
Arthur Verocai,
Das Ding,
La Düsseldorf,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Flamin' Groovies,
Alton Ellis,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kurtis Blow,
Panda Bear,
Q65,
The Gories,
Eve St. Jones,
Half Japanese,
Marcia Griffiths,
Silicon Teens,
Scientists,
Wally Richardson,
Model 500,
The Fire Engines,
Crispy Ambulance,
Glenn Branca,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Wake,
Vladislav Delay,
Roger Hodgson,
Lindisfarne,
Barrington Levy,
K-Klass,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Pagans,
Aswad,
Warsaw,
Marine Girls,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
June of 44,
Camberwell Now,
Soft Cell,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.