Yeah, I'm losing my edge
And I'm losing my edge
The kids are coming up from behind
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
And 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 shows in Cologne
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge
I can hear their footsteps when they get on the decks
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
To the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1978
I'm losing my edge
To the art-school Brooklynites in tiny jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties
(If you're not having fun, you suck)
But I'm losing my edge, I'm losing my edge
But I was there
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
To the kids footsteps I hear, when they get on the decks
But I was there, I was there in 1974
At the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience
Ghost Rider, motorcycle hero
Oh, baby, baby, baby he's a-lookin' so cute
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 now
I was there
I was
And I've never been wrong
I used to work in the record store and 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
(I did, I did drugs)
But I'm losing my edge
To better-looking people with better ideas and more talent, you know
Seriously, they have a really good web plan, and some-
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody
Every great song by The Peach Boys
All the underground hits
All the Modern Lovers tracks
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit, 1985, '86, '87
I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagara record on German import
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 sequencer and an arpeggiator, that's the best move
And throwing your computer out the window
Why?
'Cause you would like to make something real
What would you like to make?
You'd like to make a Yaz record
I hear that you and your friends
I hear that you and your friends
I hear that you and your friends have sold your guitars and bought turntables
I hear that you and your friends have sold your turntables and bought guitars
I hear that everyone that you know is more relevant than my favorite fuckers I know
But have you seen my records?
This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders
Section 25, Mars, The Black Dice
The Germs, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment
Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, The Human League, the Monks, Lou Reed, Scott Walker
Joy Division, 10cc, Eric B, and Rakim
Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force (just hit me!)
Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes
Gil! Scott! Heron!
The Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines
The Soft Cell!
The Swans!
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
We can do this for another hour
I paid for it so I know (okay, stop)
