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 Niger and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Flipper to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Halsall tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gladiators record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 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 a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Country Teasers,
David Axelrod,
Blancmange,
Echospace,
Jimmy McGriff,
Max Romeo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lalann,
The Dave Clark Five,
F. McDonald,
Patti Smith,
Tom Boy,
Outsiders,
The Associates,
Ultravox,
Funky Four + One,
The Walker Brothers,
MC5,
Jerry's Kids,
Ralphi Rosario,
Duran Duran,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Dawn Penn,
DJ Sneak,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bauhaus,
Ludus,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
These Immortal Souls,
the Human League,
Eddi Front,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Faust,
Johnny Osbourne,
Arcadia,
Josef K,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ponytail,
Talk Talk,
Crime,
Masters at Work,
Television,
Funkadelic,
Grandmaster Flash,
La Düsseldorf,
John Cale,
Carl Craig,
Steve Hackett,
Radiohead,
Sandy B,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Barracudas,
David Bowie,
X-Ray Spex,
Panda Bear,
Alphaville,
the Association,
John Holt,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Joyce Sims,
Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music, Parry Music.
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.