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 Benin and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Madrid.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 F. McDonald to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Pantytec. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and a güiro 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 sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
U.S. Maple,
Arab on Radar,
Sonic Youth,
Nirvana,
Todd Rundgren,
The Beau Brummels,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jesper Dahlback,
Tropical Tobacco,
Wally Richardson,
Qualms,
The Golliwogs,
Rhythm & Sound,
Liliput,
Talk Talk,
The Five Americans,
Minor Threat,
Lou Reed,
Goldenarms,
Public Enemy,
Alton Ellis,
Zero Boys,
Don Cherry,
Pussy Galore,
Altered Images,
Lakeside,
Oblivians,
Kerri Chandler,
Brothers Johnson,
Joensuu 1685,
The Smoke,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Peter and Kerry,
Morten Harket,
Barrington Levy,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marine Girls,
Quando Quango,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Sight & Sound,
Second Layer,
Davy DMX,
Mantronix,
Loose Ends,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lyres,
The Fall,
The Invisible,
Erykah Badu,
Vladislav Delay,
Nico,
DNA,
The Trojans,
Khruangbin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pere Ubu,
Roxy Music,
Harpers Bizarre,
Cybotron,
Main Source,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Technova,
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.