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 the UAE and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Scott Walker to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a clarinet 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 guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amazonics,
Traffic Nightmare,
Brothers Johnson,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Howard Jones,
Banda Bassotti,
EPMD,
Brick,
Al Stewart,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
T. Rex,
Faraquet,
48th St. Collective,
Eurythmics,
Quantec,
Rosa Yemen,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Cramps,
Black Sheep,
Josef K,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Tomorrow,
Severed Heads,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fela Kuti,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Electric Prunes,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lyres,
Aaron Thompson,
Gerry Rafferty,
Susan Cadogan,
New Age Steppers,
Sound Behaviour,
Joey Negro,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Kool Moe Dee,
Matthew Halsall,
The Black Dice,
Schoolly D,
Chrome,
The Shadows of Knight,
Jeff Lynne,
Ponytail,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Victims,
In Retrospect,
The Buckinghams,
Q and Not U,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Trumans Water,
These Immortal Souls,
Lou Reed,
Pharoah Sanders,
Anthony Braxton,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Reuben Wilson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Donald Byrd,
Roy Ayers,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.