Minichan

LCD Soundystem - Losing My Edge

i'm losing my edge
the kids are coming up from behind
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
all the words
i'm losing my edge
to all the kids in tokyo and berlin
to the art school brooklynites in little jackets
and borrowed nostalgia from the unremembered 80s
i'm losing my edge

but i was there

i'm losing my edge
i can hear the footsteps every night on the decks

but i was there

i was there in 1974, for 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 CBGBs
everybody thought it was crazy

we all know
i was there

i've never been wrong
i used to work in a 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 a beach in Ibiza in 1988


but i'm losing my edge
to better looking people
with better ideas and more talent
who are 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 Beach Boys. all the underground hits.
all the modern lover's tracks
i heard you have vinyl of every Niagara record, on german import
i heard 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 of the 70s
i hear you're buying a synthesizer, and an arpegiator, and throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real
you wanna make a jazz 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
have you seen my records?

This Heat, Pere Ubu, the Outsiders, Nation Of Ulysses, Marss, XXXX, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Sexy 45,
Althea & Donna, Sexual XXXX, a-ha, Pere Ubu, XXXX, the XXXX Allstars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed,
Scott Walker, Monk, Siagra, Joy Division, Lame 48??, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10CC, Double T, Eric B & Rakim, Basic Channel,
Soulsonic Force, "just hit me", Juan Atkins, XXXX, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits, Faust, Mantronix,
Paraoh Sanders, 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 all know what you really want (repeat until fade)

Hey Mark.

@previous (B)
Not me.

@OP
Sup Fake Anon?

@302,327 (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Sup OP.

@302,331 (D)
@previous (A)
Look, at this point I think it's pretty clear that I am NOT @OP.

THanks.

@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Denial.