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 St Lucia and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare 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 The Dirtbombs to the crunk 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe 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 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pulsallama,
Nas,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Erykah Badu,
Icehouse,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Chris & Cosey,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Television Personalities,
Pagans,
Marmalade,
Nick Fraelich,
Jimmy McGriff,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mummies,
The Buckinghams,
Magma,
Alison Limerick,
Negative Approach,
DJ Sneak,
The Dirtbombs,
John Lydon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Techniques,
Sun City Girls,
The Gories,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Skatalites,
Hot Snakes,
John Holt,
The Knickerbockers,
Radiohead,
Stiv Bators,
Motorama,
Bronski Beat,
Ituana,
Alton Ellis,
Rakim,
Section 25,
Byron Stingily,
Jandek,
Jacob Miller,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Unwound,
Anthony Braxton,
Matthew Bourne,
Bootsy Collins,
The Motions,
Model 500,
Barclay James Harvest,
Fad Gadget,
Jeff Lynne,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Faust,
Spoonie Gee,
Groovy Waters,
Technova,
Man Parrish,
Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow, Kings Of Tomorrow.
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.