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 Indonesia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 Tehran and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Blake Baxter to the dance 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 Soul II Soul. All the underground hits.
All Stetsasonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun Ra 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb 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 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Khruangbin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joey Negro,
Spoonie Gee,
John Cale,
Clear Light,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Essential Logic,
Unrelated Segments,
Panda Bear,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Erasure,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pantaleimon,
Youth Brigade,
Joy Division,
June Days,
Urselle,
Throbbing Gristle,
Lakeside,
Flipper,
Neu!,
Alphaville,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Move,
Andrew Hill,
It's A Beautiful Day,
cv313,
Depeche Mode,
Lucky Dragons,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
PIL,
H. Thieme,
Dark Day,
Minny Pops,
Roy Ayers,
Derrick Morgan,
Main Source,
Arcadia,
Lee Hazlewood,
Yusef Lateef,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bad Manners,
Das Ding,
Simply Red,
Talk Talk,
Marshall Jefferson,
Public Enemy,
Fatback Band,
Todd Terry,
The Moleskins,
Lower 48,
June of 44,
Skarface,
Terry Callier,
Man Parrish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Howard Jones,
The Sound,
the Human League,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.