Tom: Am
Intro: palm mute rhythmically (also through out the first verse:
Verse 1:
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.
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But I was there.
Verse 2: (entire verse is based around the riff*
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I was there in 1968.
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I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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I'm losing my edge.
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I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
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I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member
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of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
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I'm losing my edge.
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To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.
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I'm losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets
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and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.
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But I'm losing my edge.
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I'm losing my edge, but I was there.
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I was there.
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But I was there.
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I'm losing my edge.
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I'm losing my edge.
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I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
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But I was there.
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I was there in 1974 at the first Suicide practices in a loft in New York City.
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I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
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I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
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I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
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I was there.
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I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids.
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I played it at CBGB's.
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Everybody thought I was crazy.
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We all know.
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I was there.
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I was there.
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I've never been wrong.
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I used to work in the record store.
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I had everything before anyone.
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I was there in the Paradise Garage DJ booth with Larry Levan.
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I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes.
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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.
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And they're actually really, really nice.
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I'm losing my edge.
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I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
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Every great song by the Beach Boys. All the underground hits.
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All the Modern Lovers tracks.
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I heard you have a vinyl of Every Niagra record on German import.
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I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit Techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
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I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and Another box set from the '70s.
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I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator
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and are throwing your computer out the window
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because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
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I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables.
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I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars.
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I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
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But have you seen my records?
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This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars,
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The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, the Germs, Section 25,
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Althea and Donna, Sexual harassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL,
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the Fania All-Stars, the Bar-Kays, the Human League, the Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra,
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Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra,
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Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,
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Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!),
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Juan Atkins, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, the Slits,
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Faust, Mantronix, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, the Swans, the Soft Cell,
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the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics, the Sonics.
Outro:
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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You don't know what you really want.
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