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 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 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 1962 to 1978

I'm losing my edge

To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin

I'm losing my edge 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

But 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 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City

I was working on the organ sounds with much patience

I was there

When 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's thought I was crazy

We all know

I was there

I was there

I've never been wrong

I used to work in 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, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc

Joy Division, Laurent Garnier, The Creation, Sun Ra, Rammellzee

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