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 Colombia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the marimba 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 Amazonics to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 New Order. All the underground hits.
All Kango’s Stein Massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a guitar 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 clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Goldenarms,
The Gladiators,
Archie Shepp,
Marcia Griffiths,
Grandmaster Flash,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Technova,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gang of Four,
Subhumans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Bronski Beat,
Lou Christie,
Can,
Ornette Coleman,
Cheater Slicks,
Soul Sonic Force,
In Retrospect,
Index,
Nico,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Divine Comedy,
Scrapy,
Man Parrish,
John Coltrane,
One Last Wish,
Mr. Review,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Dark Day,
Warren Ellis,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The J.B.'s,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Radiohead,
U.S. Maple,
Crime,
Electric Prunes,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Michelle Simonal,
Eric Copeland,
Erykah Badu,
The Monochrome Set,
Morten Harket,
Barbara Tucker,
The Walker Brothers,
Dennis Brown,
The Sonics,
the Soft Cell,
Gang Gang Dance,
Vladislav Delay,
The Grass Roots,
The Slackers,
Tim Buckley,
Yellowson,
The Stooges,
Althea and Donna,
Glambeats Corp.,
Jerry's Kids,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.