losing my edge - live at madison square garden

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 show in Cologne
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge
I can hear their footsteps 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 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
Cha! Cha! Woo-hoo!
Cha! Cha!

Yeah, I'm losing my edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
To the kids footsteps I hear, when they get on the deck
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 now
I was there
I was there
And 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
I did, I did drugs

But I'm losing my edge
To better-looking people with better ideas and more talent
Seriously, they have a really good web plan, and some
Cha! Cha! Cha! Cha! Woohoo-hoo!
Cha! Cha! Cha!

I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody
Every great song by the Beach 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 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 band have sold your turntables and you bought guitars
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than my favorite fuckers 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 Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu
Dorothy Ashby, PIL, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, The Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra, Joy Division
Lower 48, The Association, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 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 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
We can do this for another hour
I paid for it so I know