Related Clues:

• Losing power
• Failing onstage
• Bombing on stage
• Fizzling out
• Flopping at a comedy club
• Ira Levin's "A Kiss Before ___"
• Really anxious (to know)
• Subsiding (with "down")
• Coming to an end
• Coluring, hair or fabric
• Sounds like what to do for just a shade of a change
• Sounds like a shade of a change at last
• The last thing you'd be doing would be making this just a shade different, by the sound of it
• Passing on the shade of a change, by the sound of it
• Keen to have one foot in the grave?