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 Sweden and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Vladislav Delay to the rock 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every MDC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare 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 synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Fluxion,
Ohio Players,
Scrapy,
The Gories,
The Flesh Eaters,
Susan Cadogan,
The Vogues,
Index,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Crime,
Deakin,
Television Personalities,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Monks,
Kaleidoscope,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Stiv Bators,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ultra Naté,
Joe Smooth,
The Techniques,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Sonics,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Jesper Dahlback,
New Order,
Alton Ellis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wire,
Oneida,
the Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
Joensuu 1685,
Sugar Minott,
The Dave Clark Five,
Unrelated Segments,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alice Coltrane,
David Axelrod,
Gregory Isaacs,
Ossler,
Lou Christie,
Skarface,
Silicon Teens,
Junior Murvin,
Yazoo,
Traffic Nightmare,
Quantec,
Funky Four + One,
Stereo Dub,
cv313,
Swans,
Zero Boys,
Peter & Gordon,
Black Bananas,
Bush Tetras,
Faraquet,
Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus, Black Pus.
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.