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 Maldives and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Rhythm & Sound to the punk 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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar 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 arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Public Image Ltd.,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Don Cherry,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
David Axelrod,
Piero Umiliani,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Blancmange,
Lungfish,
Letta Mbulu,
Faraquet,
Leonard Cohen,
Carl Craig,
Japan,
Juan Atkins,
Derrick Morgan,
Joe Finger,
Rotary Connection,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Fortunes,
Sixth Finger,
D'Angelo,
The Tremeloes,
Joy Division,
Drexciya,
Monks,
Siglo XX,
ABC,
Absolute Body Control,
Talk Talk,
Bluetip,
Steve Hackett,
Agent Orange,
Roger Hodgson,
Ralphi Rosario,
Eden Ahbez,
Kenny Larkin,
Dorothy Ashby,
Pantaleimon,
Arcadia,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cure,
Mandrill,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Loose Ends,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Inner City,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Move,
Arthur Verocai,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Technova,
Lucky Dragons,
Lalann,
E-Dancer,
Andrew Hill,
Cecil Taylor,
Aural Exciters,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.