LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"

but we weren't arguing we were just like hay this was a good song

it is a good song.

rip my innocence

Syclops

Love this record.

Syclopzzzzzzz

whiney is so cranky sometimes

I'm losing my edge to the tweeters who can tweet 1,500 records a year.
I'm losing my edge.

I was there when Bat For Lashes got an 8 and then drowned shortly thereafter. We all know.

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.

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.

the good stuff they've been putting out: Shocking Pinks, Syclops, et al

ugh, worst things they've put out

otm like a buffalo nickel

But I was there! I was transcribing the lyrics to this song before anybody else did!

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.

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.

haha snrub

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

the real argument should be: kill youre damn saelf

This is ten years old. 10 years old. A decade. I feel a bit like Jeremy Piven. 10 WHOLE YEARS.

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