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 the UAE and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Lyon.
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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Eurythmics to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Byron Stingily tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin 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 harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Matthew Bourne,
Faust,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alton Ellis,
Roger Hodgson,
Derrick Morgan,
Section 25,
The Sonics,
Matthew Halsall,
Roy Ayers,
Niagra,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Bar-Kays,
Iggy Pop,
Gang Starr,
The United States of America,
Junior Murvin,
Amon Düül II,
Michelle Simonal,
Vainqueur,
Rosa Yemen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Swell Maps,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Scan 7,
Sällskapet,
Excepter,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joy Division,
Wally Richardson,
EPMD,
Warren Ellis,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Y Pants,
Donald Byrd,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mantronix,
The Toasters,
Dave Gahan,
Roxy Music,
Harpers Bizarre,
Echospace,
In Retrospect,
Youth Brigade,
Flamin' Groovies,
Bobby Womack,
The Busters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Davy DMX,
Cheater Slicks,
Minnie Riperton,
Kerri Chandler,
China Crisis,
Sugar Minott,
The Modern Lovers,
Fat Boys,
The Sound,
MC5,
Aloha Tigers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Five Americans,
Crispy Ambulance,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.