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 <a href="/lyrics/Can" title="Can">Can</a> 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 <a href="/lyrics/Suicide" title="Suicide">Suicide</a> practices in a loft in New York City.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when <a href="/lyrics/Captain_Beefheart_And_The_Magic_Band" title="Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band">Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band</a> 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 <a href="/lyrics/Daft_Punk" title="Daft Punk">Daft Punk</a> 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 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 <a href="/lyrics/The_Beach_Boys" title="The Beach Boys">The Beach Boys</a>. All the underground hits. All the <a href="/lyrics/The_Modern_Lovers" title="The Modern Lovers">Modern Lovers</a> tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Niagra&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Niagra (page does not exist)">Niagra</a> 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 are 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? <a href="/lyrics/This_Heat" title="This Heat">This Heat</a>, <a href="/lyrics/Pere_Ubu" title="Pere Ubu">Pere Ubu</a>, <a href="/lyrics/Outsiders" title="Outsiders">Outsiders</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Nation_of_Ulysses&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Nation of Ulysses (page does not exist)">Nation of Ulysses</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Mars&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Mars (page does not exist)">Mars</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=The_Trojans&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="The Trojans (page does not exist)">The Trojans</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=The_Black_Dice&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="The Black Dice (page does not exist)">The Black Dice</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Todd_Terry&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Todd Terry (page does not exist)">Todd Terry</a>, <a href="/lyrics/The_Germs" title="The Germs">The Germs</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Section_25&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Section 25 (page does not exist)">Section 25</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Althea_and_Donna&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Althea and Donna (page does not exist)">Althea and Donna</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Sexual_Harrassment&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Sexual Harrassment (page does not exist)">Sexual Harrassment</a>, <a href="/lyrics/A-ha" title="A-ha">a-ha</a>, <a href="/lyrics/Pere_Ubu" title="Pere Ubu">Pere Ubu</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Dorothy_Ashby&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Dorothy Ashby (page does not exist)">Dorothy Ashby</a>, <a href="/lyrics/Public_Image_Ltd." title="Public Image Ltd.">PIL</a>, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, <a href="/lyrics/The_Human_League" title="The Human League">The Human League</a>, the Normal, <a href="/lyrics/Lou_Reed" title="Lou Reed">Lou Reed</a>, <a href="/lyrics/Scott_Walker" title="Scott Walker">Scott Walker</a>, <a href="/lyrics/Monks" title="Monks">Monks</a>, Niagra,

<a href="/lyrics/Joy_Division" title="Joy Division">Joy Division</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Lower_48&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Lower 48 (page does not exist)">Lower 48</a>, <a href="/lyrics/The_Association" title="The Association">The Association</a>, <a class="new" href="/index.php?title=Sun_Ra&action=edit&redlink=1" rel="nofollow" title="Sun Ra (page does not exist)">Sun Ra</a>,
Scientists, Royal Trux, <a href="/lyrics/10cc" title="10cc">10cc</a>,

Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, <a href="/lyrics/Faust" title="Faust">Faust</a>, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the <a href="/lyrics/Soft_Cell" title="Soft Cell">Soft Cell</a>, <a href="/lyrics/The_Sonics" title="The Sonics">The Sonics</a>, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.

You don't know what you really want. (x15)