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 Paraguay and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 1983 at the first Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Can to the dance 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 Lakeside. All the underground hits.
All Kool Moe Dee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ 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 güiro and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Johnny Osbourne,
Q65,
The Blackbyrds,
Kool Moe Dee,
Surgeon,
F. McDonald,
The Happenings,
KRS-One,
Soft Machine,
The Zeros,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Guru Guru,
a-ha,
Sandy B,
The Gun Club,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Music Machine,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
K-Klass,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Ituana,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Yellowson,
kango's stein massive,
Beasts of Bourbon,
DJ Sneak,
Echospace,
Man Eating Sloth,
Cameo,
Unrelated Segments,
Deadbeat,
Organ,
The Sound,
The Five Americans,
Erasure,
Niagra,
The Busters,
David Bowie,
Wally Richardson,
Gang Green,
Cluster,
Warren Ellis,
Roxette,
John Holt,
Subhumans,
Todd Rundgren,
Cecil Taylor,
Fluxion,
Joensuu 1685,
the Normal,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gap Band,
Dead Boys,
Jacques Brel,
Bobby Sherman,
Wings,
The Modern Lovers,
Zapp,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.