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 Guatemala and from Cairo.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Quadrant to the rap 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 Howard Jones. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lebanon Hanover 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hashim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cowsills,
Idris Muhammad,
Altered Images,
Sarah Menescal,
Minor Threat,
Excepter,
UT,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Five Americans,
The Gladiators,
Liliput,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Modern Lovers,
The Young Rascals,
Sonic Youth,
Bush Tetras,
Negative Approach,
Ponytail,
Godley & Creme,
The Misunderstood,
June of 44,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kerrie Biddell,
Tears for Fears,
Donald Byrd,
Graham Central Station,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Con Funk Shun,
Neil Young,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Popol Vuh,
The Electric Prunes,
Eden Ahbez,
Arthur Verocai,
John Holt,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Crash Course in Science,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Reagan Youth,
Anakelly,
Kerri Chandler,
Boredoms,
H. Thieme,
Flash Fearless,
The Velvet Underground,
Wasted Youth,
New Age Steppers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bobby Byrd,
Man Eating Sloth,
Funkadelic,
Stereo Dub,
Dorothy Ashby,
Anthony Braxton,
Lightning Bolt,
Surgeon,
Bill Near,
Buzzcocks,
Leonard Cohen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks, Porter Ricks.
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.