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 New Zealand and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Ultra Naté to the disco 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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro 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 linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Skaos,
Sugar Minott,
Loose Ends,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Wings,
DJ Style,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Misunderstood,
Lyres,
Graham Central Station,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nirvana,
The Modern Lovers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
X-Ray Spex,
E-Dancer,
Yazoo,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Gladiators,
Minutemen,
Electric Prunes,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Dirtbombs,
The Gories,
The Selecter,
X-102,
Mary Jane Girls,
Metal Thangz,
Deakin,
Brothers Johnson,
Pantaleimon,
Ten City,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Jacob Miller,
Icehouse,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Delon & Dalcan,
Accadde A,
Lightning Bolt,
Darondo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Agent Orange,
The Beau Brummels,
Sparks,
Amon Düül,
The Young Rascals,
The Sonics,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Carl Craig,
Bronski Beat,
Magma,
Barrington Levy,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Order,
the Sonics,
Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's, Ultramagnetic MC's.
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.