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 Azerbaijan and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Marine Girls to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron 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 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sex Pistols,
Ken Boothe,
Pantytec,
OOIOO,
Fad Gadget,
Skaos,
Yusef Lateef,
Soul Sonic Force,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tomorrow,
The Gun Club,
Sarah Menescal,
Mo-Dettes,
Harmonia,
Crash Course in Science,
ABBA,
Pet Shop Boys,
Robert Görl,
Gang Green,
Joensuu 1685,
Tres Demented,
Idris Muhammad,
Youth Brigade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Nik Kershaw,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Isaac Hayes,
Bobby Byrd,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Erasure,
Crime,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mojo Men,
Alton Ellis,
Eden Ahbez,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Dennis Brown,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
MC5,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Eve St. Jones,
John Holt,
The Walker Brothers,
Subhumans,
Audionom,
The United States of America,
Pierre Henry,
Quadrant,
The Tremeloes,
The Divine Comedy,
Johnny Osbourne,
Throbbing Gristle,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Babytalk,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Silicon Teens,
Wasted Youth,
Ultra Naté,
KRS-One,
X-102,
the Association,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.