― Chupa-Cabras, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is this the guy from Six Finger Satellite?
― Andy K, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tim, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― lauren, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Keith McD, Wednesday, 24 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mark, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Wednesday, 31 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I had a real moment with Losing My Edge, my friend had gone to park his car on Saturday and I was in the bar waiting for him to come back and it came on. I hadn't heard it before and I knew it had to be it, it was long enough that my friend got back and was able to be impressed aswell. Fantastic. And I have no frame of reference with the Fall or Talking Heads or anyone but nonetheless, fantastic. (I did think it was a bit like Alex Gopher)
― Ronan, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jel --, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
!!! Ronan what on earth are you talking about? Certainly none of the Alex Gopher I've heard.
― Tim, Thursday, 1 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Boy, the last few Six Finger Satellite records still sound great/annoying.
― Andy K, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
Most of the D&B breaks used after the genre ditched the "Jungle" term/techniques were from "The Incredible Bongo Band's" version of "Apache" (not that this question was literal...)
― Joe aka PappaWheelie (Joe aka PappaWheelie), Saturday, 14 September 2002 06:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
"To get a good idea of the LCD's sound one must imagine Daft Punk, Chic and the Talking Heads in the back room of a seedy NYC dive engaged in an anything-goes sexathon circa 1978."
― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Saturday, 14 September 2002 08:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
"Beat Connection" is excellent.
― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 14 September 2002 08:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
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
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
― 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
― the shitbirdification of america's youth (cankles), Saturday, 25 July 2009 09:07 (fourteen years ago) link
This is ten years old. 10 years old. A decade. I feel a bit like Jeremy Piven. 10 WHOLE YEARS.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:00 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― mark e, Friday, 23 March 2012 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
Song about feeling old succeeds in making you feel old.
― And I have been called "The Appetite" (DL), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:21 (twelve years ago) link
Wikipedia tells me that Murphy is 9 years older than me, so that was a pretty good guess.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:24 (twelve years ago) link
personal crisis starts hear. i remember dancing to this at my first Glastonbury (I was there!)
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:53 (twelve years ago) link
starts hear?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Friday, 23 March 2012 11:57 (twelve years ago) link
ha yeah i can never get that Piven "TEN (horn honk!) YEARS!" thing out of my head when a decade's gone by.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 March 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
always preferred the B side but then that's a classic indie tossbag thing that 'the kids' on the actual song might say.
― piscesx, Friday, 23 March 2012 12:28 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― like a musical album. made by a band. (fucking in the streets), Friday, 23 March 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
"Memmmmmmmmmories..."
http://stereogum.com/1087342/losing-my-edge-turns-10/top-stories/
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 18:20 (eleven years ago) link
Almost a tween.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
Nice article, although everyone I know pronounces it I-beetha or Ib-eetha - is it different in the States?
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 13:46 (eleven years ago) link
most ppl I know say Ih-bee-zah unless they've actually been there
― I see you, Pineapple Teef (DJP), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
"I once wrote an entire paragraph about how people pronounce 'Ibiza' without researching it"
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Pat Finn, Wednesday, 11 July 2012 15:54 (eleven years ago) link
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
― is capybara gay? (Ówen P.), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 16:26 (eleven years ago) link
Remix of a (loose) cover of a Fear song that seems to owe something to LCD:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycR3K1IIf9U
― i don't even have an internet (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:27 (eleven years ago) link
(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
ugh, worst things they've put out
wait what?
― chinavision!, Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
shocking pinks def in my bottom 5 dfa.
― terbil truths (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
Syclops is fucking fantastic, esp the new record
― shohreh aja/danteloo (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 18 June 2013 05:12 (eleven 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