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 Laos and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Hashim to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kevin Saunderson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 chamberlin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
cv313,
The Star Department,
Shoche,
Nation of Ulysses,
Malaria!,
The Flesh Eaters,
Sonic Youth,
Khruangbin,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Music Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Ituana,
Sexual Harrassment,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Qualms,
Silicon Teens,
Moss Icon,
The Skatalites,
Circle Jerks,
Neu!,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Thompson Twins,
The Techniques,
Glenn Branca,
Gang of Four,
Babytalk,
Robert Görl,
The Sound,
Anthony Braxton,
Minny Pops,
Radiopuhelimet,
Laurel Aitken,
CMW,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Last Poets,
E-Dancer,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Blues Magoos,
Kenny Larkin,
The Monochrome Set,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Dead C,
MDC,
The Tremeloes,
Con Funk Shun,
The Sonics,
Tears for Fears,
Schoolly D,
Todd Rundgren,
the Slits,
The Searchers,
Deakin,
The Doors,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Toasters,
The Blackbyrds,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Motions,
Visage, Visage, Visage, Visage.
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.