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 Japan and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Rakim to the techno 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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Half Japanese tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Zeros record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ 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 mellotron and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
Smog,
Rosa Yemen,
Bizarre Inc.,
Pet Shop Boys,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Fire Engines,
Bill Wells,
10cc,
Joy Division,
Suburban Knight,
The Young Rascals,
Ludus,
Alice Coltrane,
Drexciya,
Monolake,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Victims,
Skriet,
Juan Atkins,
Basic Channel,
Flipper,
Roger Hodgson,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fela Kuti,
Lucky Dragons,
Gichy Dan,
Popol Vuh,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mandrill,
Alton Ellis,
Sun Ra,
Siglo XX,
Eurythmics,
John Holt,
Brass Construction,
Stereo Dub,
AZ,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Panda Bear,
Scott Walker,
Bang On A Can,
the Swans,
Danielle Patucci,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sonics,
Cecil Taylor,
Monks,
Wasted Youth,
Lindisfarne,
Godley & Creme,
Flamin' Groovies,
DNA,
Ornette Coleman,
Soft Cell,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Crime, Crime, Crime, Crime.
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.