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 Argentina and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes 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 John Coltrane to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All This Heat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin 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 clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Rod Modell,
Tim Buckley,
The Count Five,
Joey Negro,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantytec,
Gang Green,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Associates,
Television Personalities,
Don Cherry,
Camouflage,
Todd Rundgren,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Technova,
Unwound,
Dorothy Ashby,
Matthew Halsall,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Toasters,
Banda Bassotti,
Suicide,
Ornette Coleman,
UT,
Laurel Aitken,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Dead Boys,
Nas,
Kaleidoscope,
Negative Approach,
The Flesh Eaters,
Janne Schatter,
The Evens,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Pretty Things,
Grauzone,
Godley & Creme,
Albert Ayler,
The Sonics,
Joe Smooth,
Archie Shepp,
Tubeway Army,
OOIOO,
Eli Mardock,
Guru Guru,
Scrapy,
Erasure,
The Slits,
Monolake,
Flipper,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Basic Channel,
Robert Hood,
Joe Finger,
The Index,
Colin Newman,
Cecil Taylor,
Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins, Hasil Adkins.
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.