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 Nepal and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Bronski Beat show in Brixton.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the theremin 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 Yellowson to the grime kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Kings Of Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a harpsichord 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 rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lower 48,
The Fire Engines,
Pylon,
The Monks,
Babytalk,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Victims,
Kerri Chandler,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Yaz,
The Fortunes,
Gong,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Monochrome Set,
Quando Quango,
The Searchers,
Crash Course in Science,
Lindisfarne,
Brick,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DJ Style,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Boogie Down Productions,
The New Christs,
World's Most,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zapp,
the Bar-Kays,
The Fall,
Outsiders,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Knickerbockers,
Robert Görl,
Marshall Jefferson,
Bush Tetras,
Jesper Dahlback,
Can,
The Associates,
Ultra Naté,
The Techniques,
Boz Scaggs,
Flipper,
B.T. Express,
Jacques Brel,
Unwound,
Monolake,
Donny Hathaway,
Sex Pistols,
Magazine,
Lou Christie,
Theoretical Girls,
Minnie Riperton,
The Cosmic Jokers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harpers Bizarre,
T. Rex,
JFA,
June of 44, June of 44, June of 44, June of 44.
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.