― 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
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― NRQ, Thursday, 17 February 2005 12:33 (nineteen years ago) link
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― 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
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― 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
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― 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
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― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 17 June 2005 15:41 (eighteen years ago) link
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― 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?
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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