LCD Soundsystem

Sometimes it takes too long far a song to hit you. The genius of "Losing My Edge" was released three years ago and has lingered most humbly on my IPod for the past year plus. Man am I stupid sometimes. I've since listened to this song at least 40 times in the past week alone.

LCD Soundsystem is the brainchild of James Murphy, also the power behind DFA Records (The Rapture, The Juan MacLean, Black Dice, Hot Chip). Read the story elsewhere.

This song is not only a total party-starter, but it completely lays waste to every indie "i was there first!" pretension imaginable before beautifully dissolving into its closing chant of "you don't know want you really want...". And the comedic genius of it all is that this song about losing one's edge actually proves quite the opposite case.

Favorite lyrical spots? "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 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!".

Luv it.

LCD Soundsystem : "Losing My Edge" (mp3) (words).
LCD Soundsystem : "Disco Infiltrator" (mp3).
LCD Soundsystem : You Tube Video - "Tribulations".

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