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 France and from London
But I was there
I was there in 1968
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne
I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge
To the kids whose footsteps
I hear (I hear) when they get on the decks
I'm losing my edge
To the Internet seekers (seekers)
Who can tell me (who can tell me)
Every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978
Although I'm losing my edge
(I'm losing my edge) to all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin
To the art-school Brooklynites
In little jackets
And borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties
But I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge
But I was there
I was there
'Cause I was there
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 1974
The first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience
I was there
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 Daft Punk to the rock 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
I used to work at the record store
I had everything before anyone
I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan
I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes
I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988
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 the Peech Boys
All the underground hits
All the Modern Lovers tracks
I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagara record on German import
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno 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 synthesizer and an arpeggiator
And throwing your computer out the window
Because you want to make something real
You want to make a Yaz record
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars
And bought turntables
I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables
And bought guitars
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant
Than everybody that I know
But have you seen my records?
This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders
Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans
The Black Dice, Todd Terry, The Germs
Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harassment
A-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby
PIL, Fania All-Stars, The Bar-Kays
The Human League, The Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagara
Joy Division, Laurent Garnier, The Creation, Rammellzee (Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc)
Eric B. And Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force, just hit me
Juan Atkins, Manuel Göttsching, David Axelrod
Electric Prunes, Gil Scott-Heron, The Slits, Faust
Mantronix, Pharoah Sanders and The Fire Engines
The Swans, the Soft Cell
The Sonics
The Sonics
The Sonics
The Sonics
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
Okay, stop
