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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

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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

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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 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 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
Harrassment, 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

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)

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LCD Soundsystem has been anticipated since

Murphy’s 2002 splash Losing My Edge/Beat
Connection, and like it, makes clear that although
his musical reference points (Suicide, Eno, Can,
ESG, Talking Heads, the Fall, and on and on and
on) are upfront enough to be conspicuous, they
never quite cross the line into hipster-wallpaper.
In fact, if anything, Murphy has a given a good
name to cooler-than-thou poses, presenting his
music, if not irony-free, then as earnestly as can
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LCD Soundsystem

1. Daft Punk Is Playing at 9. Great Release

My House
10. Losing My Edge
2. Too Much Love
11. Beat Connection
3. Tribulations
12. Give It Up
4. Movement
13. Tired
5. Never as Tired as When
I’m Waking Up 14. Yeah (Crass Version)

6. On Repeat 15. Yeah (Pretentious

Version)
7. Thrills
16. Yr City’s a Sucker
8. Disco Infiltrator

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Produced By Written By
The DFA James Murphy

Release Date Losing My Edge Samples

July 8, 2002 Cardboard Lamb
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Songs That Sample Losing My Losing My Edge Interpolations

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