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 Rwanda and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Scan 7 to the techno 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 Andrew Hill. All the underground hits.
All The Doors tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar 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 snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Young Rascals,
Niagra,
The Evens,
Girls At Our Best!,
Guru Guru,
La Düsseldorf,
Pet Shop Boys,
Black Bananas,
Bush Tetras,
Mantronix,
The Cramps,
Unwound,
The Walker Brothers,
Pantytec,
Harpers Bizarre,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Radiopuhelimet,
Stockholm Monsters,
Angry Samoans,
Bootsy Collins,
Mission of Burma,
Mad Mike,
Connie Case,
Frankie Knuckles,
L. Decosne,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Newcleus,
The Happenings,
Robert Wyatt,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aaron Thompson,
Harmonia,
Anthony Braxton,
Carl Craig,
Outsiders,
Liliput,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Pharoah Sanders,
DJ Style,
Erasure,
Crispian St. Peters,
Organ,
Sarah Menescal,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Pierre Henry,
Electric Prunes,
JFA,
The J.B.'s,
Barbara Tucker,
Dave Gahan,
X-Ray Spex,
Yusef Lateef,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang of Four,
Japan,
The Smiths,
The Trojans,
Ornette Coleman,
Schoolly D,
Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger, Joe Finger.
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.