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
/the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al/ugh, worst things they've put out
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