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 Vietnam and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 Johannesburg and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1968 at the first Bowie practice in a loft in Bromley.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Simply Red to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Television Personalities. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum 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 spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Music Machine,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Slits,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Cameo,
Amon Düül II,
Q and Not U,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Cowsills,
The Selecter,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scratch Acid,
Soul II Soul,
The Names,
The Tremeloes,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Suburban Knight,
Rufus Thomas,
Sun City Girls,
Nas,
Gastr Del Sol,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jesper Dahlback,
48th St. Collective,
Bobby Byrd,
Patti Smith,
Crispy Ambulance,
Public Enemy,
Electric Prunes,
Lucky Dragons,
The Real Kids,
Sarah Menescal,
Sun Ra,
Graham Central Station,
Brothers Johnson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Mummies,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Görl,
The Motions,
Duran Duran,
Qualms,
Babytalk,
Charles Mingus,
Index,
Danielle Patucci,
The American Breed,
Isaac Hayes,
Whodini,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Eddi Front,
Bronski Beat,
Schoolly D,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Ituana,
Alice Coltrane,
Animal Collective,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Swans,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.