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 Gambia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Taipei.
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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tropical Tobacco. All the underground hits.
All The Fuzztones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a mellotron 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 guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pierre Henry,
Moebius,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Unrelated Segments,
Popol Vuh,
Wings,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
10cc,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
CMW,
Marine Girls,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
H. Thieme,
Pussy Galore,
Sonny Sharrock,
Stereo Dub,
Icehouse,
The Modern Lovers,
New Age Steppers,
Janne Schatter,
Lyres,
Sixth Finger,
the Normal,
Altered Images,
Camouflage,
Absolute Body Control,
Bob Dylan,
David McCallum,
the Slits,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Tomorrow,
Japan,
Sun City Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Arcadia,
JFA,
John Cale,
Boogie Down Productions,
Funkadelic,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
LL Cool J,
B.T. Express,
48th St. Collective,
Zero Boys,
Symarip,
Blancmange,
Amazonics,
Eric B and Rakim,
Niagra,
Deakin,
New York Dolls,
Donald Byrd,
Nik Kershaw,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Theoretical Girls,
Kayak,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joe Smooth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye, Marvin Gaye.
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.