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 Venezuela and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer 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 harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Excepter,
Ultimate Spinach,
Howard Jones,
Davy DMX,
Curtis Mayfield,
World's Most,
Skriet,
The Toasters,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jacques Brel,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Qualms,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Slackers,
Tommy Roe,
Aaron Thompson,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
FM Einheit,
Camberwell Now,
Clear Light,
Toni Rubio,
The Fuzztones,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sonic Youth,
Eric Dolphy,
Anakelly,
Ralphi Rosario,
Visage,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bush Tetras,
the Sonics,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Black Flag,
Underground Resistance,
Scratch Acid,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Dave Clark Five,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Techniques,
The Black Dice,
Main Source,
Brick,
Johnny Clarke,
Patti Smith,
Scott Walker,
The Durutti Column,
the Association,
Kurtis Blow,
Suicide,
Crash Course in Science,
Dorothy Ashby,
the Soft Cell,
Desert Stars,
Zapp,
Agitation Free,
Interpol,
The Remains,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.