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 Trinidad & Tobago and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 guitar 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 Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx to the punk 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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All Angels of Light & Akron/Family tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 chamberlin and an arpeggiator 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 marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moleskins,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
ABC,
Metal Thangz,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Maleditus Sound,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Niagra,
Los Fastidios,
The Angels of Light,
Surgeon,
John Lydon,
Hashim,
Lakeside,
Intrusion,
Young Marble Giants,
Joy Division,
Y Pants,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
U.S. Maple,
Bang On A Can,
The Doobie Brothers,
Amazonics,
One Last Wish,
Iggy Pop,
The Offenders,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yellowson,
Blake Baxter,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ituana,
The Litter,
Ultimate Spinach,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Patti Smith,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Wolf Eyes,
Basic Channel,
Bush Tetras,
Anthony Braxton,
Dual Sessions,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Real Kids,
Talk Talk,
Second Layer,
Ponytail,
Qualms,
Sixth Finger,
Model 500,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fatback Band,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Animal Collective,
Procol Harum,
Derrick May,
Funkadelic,
Ultra Naté,
the Swans,
Ronan,
Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols.
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.