LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge lyrics

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 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
Hit's 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 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? 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 Slit's, 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)