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