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 Croatia and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 1983 at the first Art of Noise practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bob Dylan 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 Rahsaan Roland Kirk. All the underground hits.
All Audionom tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Funky Four + One 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 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 snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Howard Jones,
Dual Sessions,
Reuben Wilson,
Toni Rubio,
Procol Harum,
Von Mondo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Normal,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Bluetip,
The Fall,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Leaves,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Make Up,
Lou Christie,
Anakelly,
The Moody Blues,
LL Cool J,
Sonic Youth,
Wire,
Television,
Blake Baxter,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cluster,
Fear,
Circle Jerks,
Das Ding,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Au Pairs,
Yusef Lateef,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Seeds,
the Slits,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Erykah Badu,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Echospace,
The Fuzztones,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jeff Mills,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Peter & Gordon,
Lee Hazlewood,
Steve Hackett,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gregory Isaacs,
The Sound,
The Fugs,
Scan 7,
The Count Five,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Mojo Men,
Ronan,
John Cale,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Iggy Pop,
Los Fastidios,
Gong,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.