Seriously fun music & probably my favorite single of this year. Is the B-side just as good? What else have these guys put out?
― Mark, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― John S., Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
It is kind of the the ultimate track in terms of Song as Music Criticism -- very funny references, and one that only serious music geeks could understand (not many know what would be great about seeing Can in Cologne in 1968).
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I also got completely tied in knots trying to describe it as retro/not retro and old/not old, I'd have another go at categorising it but frankly, its not a pretty sight.
Oh OK then. Anyone remember 'Malcolm X No Sell Out'?
― Alexander Blair, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keiko, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Brock K., Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
This past weekend, I put together a mix CD w/ three of the DFA singles (though I used "Beat Connection" instead of "Losing My Edge"), plus "Too Many Creeps," "Future Shock (Dance Your Pants Off)," "Do the Du," "Yopparai," "Tell You (Today)," etc. The people I've given it to seem to like it a lot...
― Douglas, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I thought that Marcello's comments were marvellous (seriously much better than mine - go read them a> instead).― Tim, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Arrow Sanders?? = Pharoah Sanders
Two mysteries solved!
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Alexander Blair, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chupa-Cabras, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is this the guy from Six Finger Satellite?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lauren, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I had a real moment with Losing My Edge, my friend had gone to park his car on Saturday and I was in the bar waiting for him to come back and it came on. I hadn't heard it before and I knew it had to be it, it was long enough that my friend got back and was able to be impressed aswell. Fantastic. And I have no frame of reference with the Fall or Talking Heads or anyone but nonetheless, fantastic. (I did think it was a bit like Alex Gopher)
― Ronan, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel --, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
!!! Ronan what on earth are you talking about? Certainly none of the Alex Gopher I've heard.
― Tim, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Boy, the last few Six Finger Satellite records still sound great/annoying.
― Andy K, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Most of the D&B breaks used after the genre ditched the "Jungle" term/techniques were from "The Incredible Bongo Band's" version of "Apache" (not that this question was literal...)
― Joe aka PappaWheelie (Joe aka PappaWheelie), Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
"To get a good idea of the LCD's sound one must imagine Daft Punk, Chic and the Talking Heads in the back room of a seedy NYC dive engaged in an anything-goes sexathon circa 1978."
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 14 September 2002 08:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Beat Connection" is excellent.
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 14 September 2002 08:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
I'm being serious.
― A.V. Alexandre (Keiko), Saturday, 14 September 2002 13:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― ron (ron), Monday, 4 November 2002 06:24 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 4 November 2002 14:43 (twenty-one years ago) link
― gareth (gareth), Thursday, 23 January 2003 11:54 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 10 January 2004 08:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Barima (Barima), Saturday, 10 January 2004 14:16 (twenty years ago) link
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Saturday, 10 January 2004 15:42 (twenty years ago) link
If I told you what the blanks are, the song becomes personal self-fulfilling prophecy, doncha know!! "It took me YEARS to find out what he's saying, you think I'ma tell you, twerpy internet seeker?"
― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 10 January 2004 20:54 (twenty years ago) link
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.
voice one: To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin.voice two: 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 CBGBs.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.
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 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.
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, M|A|R|R|S, 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,
voice one: Joy Division, Lower 48, the Association, Sun Ra, [unintelligible] voice two: Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc,
Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force ("just hit me"!), Juan Atkins, [unintelligible], 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.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.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 11 January 2004 01:37 (twenty years ago) link
Now, if somebody could just fill in the [unintelligible]s...
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 11 January 2004 01:39 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 04:26 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 04:34 (twenty years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Sunday, 11 January 2004 04:42 (twenty years ago) link
"I'm losing myself"
― Barima (Barima), Sunday, 11 January 2004 13:02 (twenty years ago) link
Same with the M|A|R|R|S/Mars deal. It's definitely the latter, because a lot of the other bands he mentions (Pere Ubu, PIL, Lou Reed) are post-punky, not house.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:04 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:14 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 17:16 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:08 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:09 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:14 (twenty years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:15 (twenty years ago) link
And WHY have I never heard of it before now!?!?!??!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:39 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:23 (twenty years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:38 (twenty years ago) link
Isn't Laurent Garnier in the lyric to Losing My Edge somewhere?
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:43 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 19:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Elliot (Elliot), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:14 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:19 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:21 (twenty years ago) link
― JaXoN (JasonD), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:25 (twenty years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 11 January 2004 20:30 (twenty years ago) link
― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 11 January 2004 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 11 January 2004 21:24 (twenty years ago) link
like this one here, on ebay right now!!
http://people.freenet.de/dustyouoff/Niagarafront.JPG
― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:54 (twenty years ago) link
― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 09:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alienus Quam Reproba (blueski), Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 10:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 11:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 11:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:16 (nineteen years ago) link
― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:40 (nineteen years ago) link
― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:42 (nineteen years ago) link
Bloody hell! When you write it down like that, it's almost like Wesley Willis lyrics.
― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Thursday, 17 February 2005 13:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 17 February 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Speedhump Bungle (noodle vague), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:21 (nineteen years ago) link
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Speedhump Bungle (noodle vague), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 February 2005 03:59 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 18 February 2005 04:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Say what you might about it otherwise, but Losing My Edge is without doubt one of the more entertaining songs ever recorded. Not that it has any relation to the album at all for me.
― Bimble... (Bimble...), Friday, 18 February 2005 09:04 (nineteen years ago) link
James: "Losing My Edge" came from a different place actually. That's them, I remember Vito [Roccoforte, from the Rapture] and Matt mentioning that to me recently, about how "Losing My Edge" came from "Do The Du", but it didn't at all. "Losing My Edge" came from a beat out of a cassette deck with a keyboard built in. That's what the du-du-dunk-ka-dunk thing for the whole thing.
The drums came from "Change" by Killing Joke. Like the turnarounds. It's like, I'm a drummer and the things you play when you warm up, I sit down and play "Little Miss Lover" by Jimi Hendrix, it's one of the beats I play. And my friend sits down and plays a different beat. The "Change" turnarounds are just one of the things I've always loved to play. Sorta like Gang Of Four's "Anthrax". But "Do The Du", I heard it about the time I met the Rapture, and was just freaking out. I love how skinny the guitars are. I think it's pretty amazing. The song was on my little MiniDisc of things I wanted people who were gonna play with me to listen to, before I ever made the band.
http://pitchforkmedia.com/features/weekly/05-05-09-jukebox-james-murphy.shtml
― a banana (alanbanana), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 16:56 (eighteen years ago) link
I'll add that for YEARS, I disliked "Losing My Edge", until I finally heard it on the LCD Soundsystem 2-CD I got earlier this year. As it turns out, when I first heard it, John In The Morning on KEXP had played ONLY THE FIRST HALF! The best part of the song is the build-up and climax in the second-half. What the fuck was up with John that morning?
It would be cool to have James just scream "CHANGE!" every now and then, just to admit it, though. :)
― donut debonair (donut), Monday, 9 May 2005 17:55 (eighteen years ago) link
WHOA
― firstworldman (firstworldman), Thursday, 9 June 2005 16:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Heeey! I resent that!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 10 June 2005 00:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― Shame 69, Friday, 10 June 2005 13:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 10 June 2005 13:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 June 2005 16:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― giggles mcj, Friday, 17 June 2005 12:57 (eighteen years ago) link
― Keith C (kcraw916), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:54 (eighteen years ago) link
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:10 (eighteen years ago) link
― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― W i l l (common_person), Friday, 17 June 2005 16:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 17 June 2005 17:08 (eighteen years ago) link
just saying
― gigglesmcj, Monday, 27 June 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link
thank you mr. murphy, if it is indeed you
― manuel (manuel), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
Tell Nancy hubbahubba from me.
― peepee (peepee), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― BanjoMania (Brilhante), Tuesday, 28 June 2005 01:38 (eighteen years ago) link
"juan atkins, MANUEL GöTTSCHING, david axelrod"
― gigglesmcj, Tuesday, 28 June 2005 21:33 (eighteen years ago) link
I can't BELIEVE I didn't catch that.
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 29 June 2005 01:08 (eighteen years ago) link
also, anyone seen these?
ihttp://www.dfarecords.com/radiomixes/tracklisting.gif
yowsa...
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Thursday, 15 December 2005 17:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― telephone thing, Thursday, 15 December 2005 21:18 (eighteen years ago) link
Great song, good video.
― Andrew (enneff), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 03:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― running in circles (running in circles), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 04:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― yer mam! (yer mam!), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link
remember how awesome it was when this song first came out
― katherine NAGL (s1ocki), Wednesday, 22 July 2009 23:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Indeed.
― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 22 July 2009 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i remember people freaking out about "Yeah" liveblogging it as they listened for the first time. good times.
― mizzell, Thursday, 23 July 2009 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
so jaded now. so damn jaded.
― Binjominia, Thursday, 23 July 2009 01:06 (fourteen years ago) link
all downhill after this
― ambience chaser (S-), Thursday, 23 July 2009 01:20 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah was a pretty awesome moment too
― katherine NAGL (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 July 2009 01:51 (fourteen years ago) link
heh wow good times.
― the shitbirdification of america's youth (cankles), Thursday, 23 July 2009 01:58 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i posted good times w/o even seeing mizzy's post XD
― the shitbirdification of america's youth (cankles), Thursday, 23 July 2009 01:59 (fourteen years ago) link
still have much love for this. and 'beat connection' for that matter.
― euskaltel husker du (haitch), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i was gonna say
― katherine NAGL (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
s1ocki were you a bigger fan of this or 'house of jealous lovers'
― euskaltel husker du (haitch), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:12 (fourteen years ago) link
it's crazy cuz i was just reminiscin bout dis da otha day - all like lmao ilm sure did love this stuff, wasnt that crazy huh
― the shitbirdification of america's youth (cankles), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:16 (fourteen years ago) link
― euskaltel husker du (haitch), Wednesday, July 22, 2009 10:12 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
good q i think they were about equal in my mind? danced more to hojl
― katherine NAGL (s1ocki), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
I made a thread about this song on the NZBRD:
TRAINSPOTTING
― (*゚ー゚)θ L(。・_・) °~ヾ(・ε・ *) (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i first heard hojl, this and beat connection all on the same day, was a big "oh man, this label!!" moment
― euskaltel husker du (haitch), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:27 (fourteen years ago) link
reemmber when jess was like BOARD OF bum bum JEALOUS WRITERS bum bum, that made me laff
― the shitbirdification of america's youth (cankles), Thursday, 23 July 2009 02:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ok--mars is the ny group, from no new york, etc.and it's "you all know what you really want"just saying― gigglesmcj, Monday, June 27, 2005 9:12 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink[
― gigglesmcj, Monday, June 27, 2005 9:12 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink[
Was this really James Murphy (or some other DFA guy)?
I think the DFA bands have gotten better and better.
"Someone Great" > "Losing My Edge""W.A.Y.U.H." > "House of Jealous Lovers""Happy House" >>>>>>>>>>> "By the Time I Get to Venus"
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 23 July 2009 03:08 (fourteen years ago) link
"Happy House" >>>>>>>>>>> all recorded music
― King Boy Pato Banton (sic), Thursday, 23 July 2009 04:10 (fourteen years ago) link
xpost makes me : )
― Tannenbaum Schmidt, Thursday, 23 July 2009 20:49 (fourteen years ago) link
Mr. Snrub is is right, but the older records have the power of so much nostalgia behind them (already!)
― myndbloom, Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:00 (fourteen years ago) link
pulled out the HOJL 12" the other day and played the morgan geist remix (which i dunno why, but i'd never listened to before) and it's pretty hot.
― like totally gr80 to the max (jaxon), Thursday, 23 July 2009 21:14 (fourteen years ago) link
No way is "WAYUH" better than "House of Jealous Lovers"
― Rostam Batmang (The Reverend), Friday, 24 July 2009 01:46 (fourteen years ago) link
That's one of my favorite days ever on ILM.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 24 July 2009 02:00 (fourteen years ago) link
― Rostam Batmang (The Reverend), Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:46 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
qft
― julien schNAGL (s1ocki), Friday, 24 July 2009 02:04 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this song is great
― Dominique, Friday, 24 July 2009 05:10 (fourteen years ago) link
it is, but I have no desire to listen to it anymore
― Rostam Batmang (The Reverend), Friday, 24 July 2009 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
Still listen to those DFA Compilation #1 and #2 collections a few times a year. Really great all around - LCD, Black Dice, Juan Maclean, Delia and Gavin/Black Leotard Front, the Rapture, Liquid Liquid, etc.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't a little early to be having DFA nostalgia guys?
― hipster brünoff (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:27 (fourteen years ago) link
man, you guys remember Siltbreeze and lo-fi? Remember when everyone was twittering about Condo Fucks? I love the early 09s!
7 years is a long time
― julien schNAGL (s1ocki), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the real argument should be that since DFA isn't "hot omg meme" label anymore, people have been ignoring the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al
― hipster brünoff (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:30 (fourteen years ago) link
but we weren't arguing we were just like hay this was a good song
― julien schNAGL (s1ocki), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:31 (fourteen years ago) link
it is a good song.
― hipster brünoff (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:44 (fourteen years ago) link
rip my innocence
― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Friday, 24 July 2009 13:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Syclops
Love this record.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 24 July 2009 14:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Syclopzzzzzzz
― fatedoomer (The Reverend), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:28 (fourteen years ago) link
whiney is so cranky sometimes
― highway to sarahel (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm losing my edge to the tweeters who can tweet 1,500 records a year.I'm losing my edge.
― highway to sarahel (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
I was there when Bat For Lashes got an 8 and then drowned shortly thereafter. We all know.
― fatedoomer (The Reverend), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:45 (fourteen years ago) link
I used to write for Idolator. I posted everything before anyone.I was there at the River Room in Harlem for the Merriweather Post Pavillion listening session.I was there at Brooklyn's Masonic Temple when Dan Deacon debuted his 15-piece live band.I woke up naked in a warehouse in Brooklyn in 2008.
― highway to sarahel (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
this was v iconic but house of jealous lovers was really amazing mixed in with all the shit that people might have called electro or whatever before the name became tainted, it was so physical. no rock record will ever have that impact again.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 25 July 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al
ugh, worst things they've put out
― like totally gr80 to the max (jaxon), Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
otm like a buffalo nickel
― fatedoomer (The Reverend), Saturday, 25 July 2009 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
But I was there! I was transcribing the lyrics to this song before anybody else did!
― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 25 July 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
before house of jealous lovers and before electroclash most people used the term electro to describe actual electro-funk i.e. Cybotron and Bam as well as the post techno electro revivalists like DMX Krew, Jedi Knights, Le Car, Drexcyia etc.
― dan selzer, Saturday, 25 July 2009 04:22 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah no of course dan, but you know what I mean by using it to mean that stuff too, I dunno, like in that interzone where people were playing hojl and lots of other dfa stuff and then stuff like black strobe etc mixed together...there wasn't really a name for it I guess. I really loved that period of time.
now it's like a sort of maxed out version of that sound is the biggest thing on the planet.
― I for one welcome this new Nazi ILX (Local Garda), Saturday, 25 July 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
haha snrub
― fatedoomer (The Reverend), Saturday, 25 July 2009 08:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i think the real argument should be that since DFA isn't "hot omg meme" label anymore, people have been ignoring the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al― hipster brünoff (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, July 24, 2009 9:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― hipster brünoff (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, July 24, 2009 9:30 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
the real argument should be: kill youre damn saelf
― the shitbirdification of america's youth (cankles), Saturday, 25 July 2009 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
This is ten years old. 10 years old. A decade. I feel a bit like Jeremy Piven. 10 WHOLE YEARS.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:00 (eleven years ago) link
quite shocked re whineys declaration of love for the shocking pinks album up there.never made it to the end of that album before i hit the eject button.
― mark e, Friday, 23 March 2012 11:16 (eleven years ago) link
Song about feeling old succeeds in making you feel old.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:18 (eleven years ago) link
I was young when it came out! I was one of them-there 'internet seekers'! With a playlist of every good song, by every good band, ever! I'm probably the same age now as Murphy was when it was recorded.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:21 (eleven years ago) link
Wikipedia tells me that Murphy is 9 years older than me, so that was a pretty good guess.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:24 (eleven years ago) link
personal crisis starts hear. i remember dancing to this at my first Glastonbury (I was there!)
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:53 (eleven years ago) link
starts hear?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:57 (eleven years ago) link
ha yeah i can never get that Piven "TEN (horn honk!) YEARS!" thing out of my head when a decade's gone by.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 March 2012 12:26 (eleven years ago) link
always preferred the B side but then that's a classic indie tossbag thing that 'the kids' on the actual song might say.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 March 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
Was just talking about this with a friend last night, but I misremembered this as having come out 2003. Now I feel older than I already did.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
"Memmmmmmmmmories..."
http://stereogum.com/1087342/losing-my-edge-turns-10/top-stories/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Almost a tween.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
Nice article, although everyone I know pronounces it I-beetha or Ib-eetha - is it different in the States?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
most ppl I know say Ih-bee-zah unless they've actually been there
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
"I once wrote an entire paragraph about how people pronounce 'Ibiza' without researching it"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
that is a very good article. i especially like the quotes from james murphy discussing how the song was born of his own fears about the declining social value of music knowledge in an era of "internet seekers" who can track down obscure information relatively easily. the song is definitely a landmark.
― Pat Finn, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
The Ibeza/Ibetha paragraph had me shaking my head, I haven't heard eye-bee-za since my teenaged brother proclaimed he was 'into trance' and bought a FSoL CD
― is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Remix of a (loose) cover of a Fear song that seems to owe something to LCD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycR3K1IIf9U
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:27 (ten years ago) link
(which is on the Maceo Plex DJ Kicks)
/the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al/ugh, worst things they've put out
wait what?
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:48 (ten years ago) link
shocking pinks def in my bottom 5 dfa.
― terbil truths (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:52 (ten years ago) link
Syclops is fucking fantastic, esp the new record
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:12 (ten years ago) link
I noticed that on LCD's first song ("Losing My Edge") and final(?) song ("Home"), the bassline shares the same rhythmic pattern... i.e., that of Killing Joke's "Change".
Intentional or not?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 1 September 2013 05:46 (ten years ago) link
Intentional I think. LCD Soundsystem always seemed like a band that had a terminal "mission" if that makes sense. When they showed up they already had a strong sense of themselves as a project or idea.
― Treeship, Sunday, 1 September 2013 05:48 (ten years ago) link
yeah i'd definitely figure it for intentional.
― HOOS it because...of steen???? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 1 September 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Pow Pow is the last song they recorded iirc, which also makes sense irt Losing My Edge being their first song.
― Van Horn Street, Sunday, 1 September 2013 21:26 (ten years ago) link
bump
― Mark, Friday, 3 July 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
what a brilliant song to debut your band with
― flappy bird, Saturday, 2 September 2017 05:57 (six years ago) link