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 Samoa and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 harpsichord 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 Newcleus to the electroclash 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 Boz Scaggs. All the underground hits.
All Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum 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 arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dave Clark Five,
Reagan Youth,
Godley & Creme,
One Last Wish,
The Techniques,
Erasure,
The Mummies,
Inner City,
The Doors,
Sixth Finger,
Terry Callier,
Tim Buckley,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Roger Hodgson,
Minny Pops,
Tomorrow,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Massinfluence,
The Names,
Ultra Naté,
Franke,
Banda Bassotti,
Dual Sessions,
Circle Jerks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Eurythmics,
10cc,
Dark Day,
Joyce Sims,
The Monochrome Set,
Gong,
Crime,
Heaven 17,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Donald Byrd,
E-Dancer,
Josef K,
Pantaleimon,
Unrelated Segments,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Matthew Halsall,
Q and Not U,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
Quando Quango,
Cal Tjader,
The Fuzztones,
The Leaves,
The Gun Club,
Susan Cadogan,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Interpol,
The United States of America,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amon Düül II,
Ice-T,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra, Electric Light Orchestra.
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.