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 Sierra Leone and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All A Flock of Seagulls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David Axelrod record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s 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 chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Buzzcocks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tomorrow,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Alice Coltrane,
Kerri Chandler,
Fad Gadget,
Joy Division,
Subhumans,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jeru the Damaja,
Bang On A Can,
Juan Atkins,
The Associates,
Tubeway Army,
The Real Kids,
Khruangbin,
This Heat,
Warren Ellis,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Danielle Patucci,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
10cc,
Aloha Tigers,
Adolescents,
La Düsseldorf,
Idris Muhammad,
Letta Mbulu,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Don Cherry,
Massinfluence,
The Misunderstood,
The Moleskins,
The Remains,
Von Mondo,
Nico,
Kenny Larkin,
Magazine,
Altered Images,
Alphaville,
Deakin,
Eric B and Rakim,
X-Ray Spex,
The Walker Brothers,
JFA,
Basic Channel,
Newcleus,
The Monochrome Set,
Colin Newman,
Agitation Free,
Sonny Sharrock,
Joensuu 1685,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Index,
Kaleidoscope,
Shuggie Otis,
Pylon,
Black Moon,
The Birthday Party,
Vladislav Delay,
Lalann,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.