LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"

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.

Song about feeling old succeeds in making you feel old.

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.

Wikipedia tells me that Murphy is 9 years older than me, so that was a pretty good guess.

personal crisis starts hear. i remember dancing to this at my first Glastonbury (I was there!)

starts hear?

ha yeah i can never get that Piven "TEN (horn honk!) YEARS!" thing out of my head when a decade's gone by.

always preferred the B side but then that's a classic indie tossbag thing that 'the kids' on the actual song might say.

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.

"Memmmmmmmmmories..."

http://stereogum.com/1087342/losing-my-edge-turns-10/top-stories/

Almost a tween.

Nice article, although everyone I know pronounces it I-beetha or Ib-eetha - is it different in the States?

most ppl I know say Ih-bee-zah unless they've actually been there

"I once wrote an entire paragraph about how people pronounce 'Ibiza' without researching it"

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.

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

Remix of a (loose) cover of a Fear song that seems to owe something to LCD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycR3K1IIf9U

(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?

shocking pinks def in my bottom 5 dfa.

Syclops is fucking fantastic, esp the new record

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?

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.

yeah i'd definitely figure it for intentional.

Pow Pow is the last song they recorded iirc, which also makes sense irt Losing My Edge being their first song.

bump

what a brilliant song to debut your band with