Losing My Edge
The debut single: a long song from a man afraid his new-found coolness is about to go away.
LCD Soundsystem, from LCD Soundsystem (2002)
- Written by
- James Murphy
- Released
- 8 July 2002 (12-inch single)
- Length
- 7:51
- Album
- LCD Soundsystem
Losing My Edge came out in July 2002 on DFA as a 12-inch with Beat Connection (Extended Disco Dub) on the other side. It later opened the second disc of the debut album. It peaked at 115 on the UK singles chart. The rhythm resembles Killing Joke's Change, and Tim Goldsworthy admitted the track was a rip-off of Killing Joke.
Murphy told ireallylovemusic that the song came from his time as a DJ playing Can, Liquid Liquid, ESG and the like: he had become kind of cool for a moment, and he was afraid that the new-found coolness was going to go away.
Pitchfork placed it thirteenth on its list of the top songs of the 2000s, NME placed it fortieth among the best tracks of the past 15 years in 2011, and Rolling Stone put it at 77 on its 2018 list of the best songs of the century so far. Live, it was part of the 2005 shows such as the one at Molotow on 20 February 2005, and it appears on The Long Goodbye.
On stage
- 2005-02-20, Molotow near the end of an early show that also included Slowdive and Jump into the Fire as covers
- 2011-04-02, Madison Square Garden, New York on The Long Goodbye
More songs by LCD Soundsystem
Someone Great, New York, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down, All I Want, Home, Oh Baby, I Used To, How Do You Sleep?, Call the Police, Emotional Haircut, Daft Punk Is Playing at My House, All My Friends, Dance Yrself Clean
Sources
- Losing My Edge, Wikipedia
- Losing My Edge (Discogs master), Discogs
- LCD Soundsystem: Live at Molotow, 2005-02-20, Internet Archive (2005-02-20)