Losing My Edge Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
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[Verse 1]
Yeah, I'm losing my [E]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.

[Verse 2]
I was there [E]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.

[Verse 3]
To [E]all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites Brooklynites in little

[Verse 4]
jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.
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But I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
I was there.
But I was there.

[Verse 5]
[E]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.

[Verse 6]
I used to work in the record [E]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.

[Verse 7]
But I'm losing my [E]edge to better-looking people
people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really,

[Verse 8]
really nice.
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[Verse 9]
I'm losing my edge.
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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 you have a vinyl of Every Niagra 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.

[Verse 10]
I hear you're [E]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.

[Verse 11]
[E]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.

[Verse 12]
I [E]hear everybody that you know is more
relevant than everybody that I know.

[Verse 13]
But have you seen [E]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, the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,

[Verse 14]
Joy Division, Lower [E]48, the Association,
Sun Ra,
Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,

[Verse 15]
Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic [E]Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!,

[Verse 16]
the Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
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[Outro 1]
You don't know what you really want. (x15)
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