LCD Soundsystem - "Losing My Edge"

i remember people freaking out about "Yeah" liveblogging it as they listened for the first time. good times.

so jaded now. so damn jaded.

all downhill after this

yeah was a pretty awesome moment too

heh wow good times.

lol i posted good times w/o even seeing mizzy's post XD

still have much love for this. and 'beat connection' for that matter.

i was gonna say

s1ocki were you a bigger fan of this or 'house of jealous lovers'

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

s1ocki were you a bigger fan of this or 'house of jealous lovers'

― 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

I made a thread about this song on the NZBRD:

TRAINSPOTTING

i think i first heard hojl, this and beat connection all on the same day, was a big "oh man, this label!!" moment

reemmber when jess was like BOARD OF bum bum JEALOUS WRITERS bum bum, that made me laff

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[

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"

"Happy House" >>>>>>>>>>> all recorded music

xpost makes me : )

Mr. Snrub is is right, but the older records have the power of so much nostalgia behind them (already!)

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.

No way is "WAYUH" better than "House of Jealous Lovers"

i remember people freaking out about "Yeah" liveblogging it as they listened for the first time. good times.

That's one of my favorite days ever on ILM.

No way is "WAYUH" better than "House of Jealous Lovers"

― Rostam Batmang (The Reverend), Thursday, July 23, 2009 9:46 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

qft

yeah this song is great

it is, but I have no desire to listen to it anymore

Still listen to those DFA Compilation #1 and #2 collections a few times a year. Really great all around - LCD, Black Dice, Juan Maclean, Delia and Gavin/Black Leotard Front, the Rapture, Liquid Liquid, etc.

Isn't a little early to be having DFA nostalgia guys?

man, you guys remember Siltbreeze and lo-fi? Remember when everyone was twittering about Condo Fucks? I love the early 09s!

7 years is a long time

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

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.