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 Lebanon and from Manila.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rhythm & Sound to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Teenage Jesus and the Jerks. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum 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 rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Human League,
The Techniques,
Agitation Free,
Aaron Thompson,
The Real Kids,
Nation of Ulysses,
Arab on Radar,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Funkadelic,
Sun Ra,
Lalann,
Stereo Dub,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dennis Brown,
Banda Bassotti,
The Litter,
Wally Richardson,
Heaven 17,
Zero Boys,
Adolescents,
A Certain Ratio,
The Mojo Men,
The Fire Engines,
Althea and Donna,
The Doors,
K-Klass,
Joyce Sims,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Erasure,
The Associates,
Mary Jane Girls,
Groovy Waters,
Cymande,
Joensuu 1685,
The Monochrome Set,
The Residents,
The Standells,
The Doobie Brothers,
Rapeman,
T. Rex,
Echospace,
Kenny Larkin,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Harpers Bizarre,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Supertramp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Au Pairs,
Reuben Wilson,
Half Japanese,
The Offenders,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Average White Band,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lightning Bolt,
Scientists,
Talk Talk,
Andrew Hill,
Boz Scaggs,
Eurythmics,
Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange, Blancmange.
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.