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 Honduras and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 ABC to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Electric Light Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All Jeff Mills tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro 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 snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minnie Riperton,
Godley & Creme,
Sound Behaviour,
Pantaleimon,
Pole,
Alice Coltrane,
Thompson Twins,
Anakelly,
Dual Sessions,
Radiopuhelimet,
Skriet,
The Gun Club,
Terrestrial Tones,
Stiv Bators,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Index,
Joensuu 1685,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ronnie Foster,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Robert Hood,
The Tremeloes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Minor Threat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Scan 7,
The Pretty Things,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bauhaus,
The Durutti Column,
Crime,
The United States of America,
Flash Fearless,
The Skatalites,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Lindisfarne,
Organ,
The Moleskins,
Technova,
Icehouse,
The Sonics,
Soul Sonic Force,
Roger Hodgson,
Kerri Chandler,
Reuben Wilson,
Porter Ricks,
Marcia Griffiths,
Eli Mardock,
Scratch Acid,
Fad Gadget,
Skarface,
Lakeside,
Crash Course in Science,
The Fuzztones,
the Soft Cell,
Negative Approach,
Brass Construction,
Lalann,
Danielle Patucci,
UT, UT, UT, UT.
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.