[Spoken Intro]

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

[Spoken Verse]

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

I'm losing my edge

(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

[Spoken Chorus]

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

[Spoken Verse]

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 thought I was crazy

We all know

I was there

I was there

[Spoken Verse]

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

[Spoken Refrain]

I'm losing my edge

[Spoken Bridge]

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

[Spoken Chorus]

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

[Spoken Bridge]

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

Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux

10cc, 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

[Outro]

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