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 Morocco and from Lyon.
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 1962 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Bronski Beat practice in a loft in Brixton.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Nik Kershaw to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All Fad Gadget tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pere Ubu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a sitar 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 synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Deakin,
Los Fastidios,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Hardrive,
Nik Kershaw,
Intrusion,
June Days,
Sonny Sharrock,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Alarm Clocks,
Rufus Thomas,
Barrington Levy,
the Sonics,
X-101,
David McCallum,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Sheep,
Joey Negro,
X-Ray Spex,
David Bowie,
World's Most,
Absolute Body Control,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bluetip,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Leonard Cohen,
Soft Machine,
Eric B and Rakim,
AZ,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Second Layer,
the Fania All-Stars,
Gregory Isaacs,
Scan 7,
Eve St. Jones,
Charles Mingus,
T. Rex,
Nirvana,
Man Parrish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Neon Judgement,
Ituana,
The Red Krayola,
Jerry's Kids,
Al Stewart,
Tears for Fears,
Massinfluence,
Pet Shop Boys,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Cramps,
Accadde A,
Basic Channel,
The Flesh Eaters,
Michelle Simonal,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Public Image Ltd.,
Radiopuhelimet,
Kool Moe Dee,
Television, Television, Television, Television.
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.