LCD Soundsystem - Losing My Edge (Official Video)
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Official music video by LCD Soundsystem for 'Losing My Edge' from 2005's 'LCD Soundsystem'
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Lyrics:
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge
The kids are coming up from behind
I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London
But I was there
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
To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin
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 CBGB's
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 Peech Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagara 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, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, The Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, Fania All-Stars, The Bar-Kays, The Human League, The Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagara, Joy Division, Laurent Garnier, The Creation, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc, Rammellzee, Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force (just hit me!), Juan Atkins, Manuel Göttsching, David Axelrod, Electric Prunes, Gil! Scott! Heron!, The Slits, Faust, Mantronix, Pharoah 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 [x15]
(Okay, stop)
#LCDSoundystem #LosingMyEdge 
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"I'm losing my edge, To better looking people... with better ideas... and more talent... and who are actually really really nice..." Absolute Class.
I was there. He's talking about me.
So, not just my lonesome who thunk this was some great lee-Riks... Long live LCD...😀
I always sing "I'm pruning my hedge" to this when I do the garden.
Deserves more than 16 likes
someone should get a hold of weird al and tell him about this
Thats the best mom joke and activity. But indy enough to get me turnt
Too bad youre not a single mom , just an illeterate thug pruning his hedge
underrated comment
also works for personal grooming
I heard this song on the radio, and then looked for "The Talking Heads - Losing My Edge" for like two solid hours.
hehe
Lol why though
Their sounds are similar
Yup, they are heavily influenced by Talking Heads, especially the percussion section. One of the reasons I enjoy the hell out of LCD.
@@ZBR_ProXP listen to their album Speaking in Tongues, definitely had an influence on LCD's rock/dance sound
And they're actually, uuuh, really really nice
I missed that line! Even after dozens of listens... Thank you!
Well, they are. You just gotta give kids a chance.
BUT HAVE YOU SEEN MY RECORDS?!
When Murphy was showing this to friends before he released it as the first LCD LP, they universally told him it was bad, in fact they said they believed he would embarrass himself by releasing it. Good thing he didn't listen to them! Sometimes its OK to trust your own judgment in the face of overwhelming negativity.
Sometimes friends are mean
🤘🤘
@@ucopiedyibo1959 sometimes friends are correct
Yo mama@@adamntbk
@@ucopiedyibo1959 aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAAhhhhhhhh, aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Fullscreen and pretend to slap James Murphy myself. So much entertainment.
What a brilliant interactive addition to this great song!
I don't know why this is so funny or fun to do...but ive now told all my friends to try this when they're bored...this song is now more entertaining than it was before
You are actually a genius.
Ballet Roses So fun!
I saw and heard this band for the first time in London 23 August 2024. Very nice.
I lost my edge.. but I am 61 and still cranking LCD SOUND SYSTEM!
Rock on
i'm 28, starting to lose my edge, and think that is cool as hell
Me too!
The fakeout at 4:06 killed me. hahahaha
2005: "I'm losing my edge"
meanwhile in 2024, still selling out shows in Manhattan, Brooklyn, wherever
I was there...literally. When this video was shot with old tube cameras from Technisphere Corp and shot in a day on the west side of Manhattan near Lincoln Center. This wasn't even the video we really shot - just James' idea he had on the side to do a one take thing. My job was to capture all the analog video from the old tube cameras.
This is true of a lot of roles and professions in the digital age. I've talked to lawyers who say back before the internet was so popular they had more prestige because nobody had all this casual access to legal information through the internet. People still need lawyers now for sure and lawyers still have way more specialized knowledge but clients can nowadays just look up the basics of building regulations or divorce laws themselves in five minutes. Before you had to master a bunch of lawbooks in some impressive wood-paneled room to know anything and the normies would have to genuflect to you. In a way that's the same story as the hipster who travelled from concert to concert and assembled a magnificent record collection after scouring record stores (high fidelity style) now being unseated by kids with computers that Murphy is talking about, for better or worse. There were more information bottlenecks so being a gatekeeper was more prestigious and mastering information was a lot more work so the former masters feel understandably betrayed when their task becomes a lot easier and the romance goes out of it (a physical adventure of searching for truth or art amid old archives, wise elders and special venues becomes a matter of clicking on a screen in a comfy chair) , even if its probably for the best for all of us.
awesome comment
This video is such a classic but also there's so many fucking great comments on it!
It’s not for the best… take a look around.
Wow. Yeah…
Yeah but not even. computers are kind of replaced lawyers just as effectively if not more than they replace truck drivers. It will be harder to add value without creating it. You can't just sift through CD cases and some stinky store and find out who's in what band and go to shoes to make connections
So I plan to watch this when i'm not really stoned, but i'm pretty sure THIS is the ultimate form that art can achieve.
4 Times in a row. Still hasn't lost it's edge.
Must be good weed.
what do you think about this 4 years later?
I completely agree - an intersection of art and life.
Close
You watch this with half your face and around the world with the other
This song gives me chills. He is singing about himself, but we can all identify. I was there... I was there... :'-)
Still relevant. Never gets old.
I'm 21 and this song makes me feel like I'm 58
I'm 58 and this makes me feel 21
Borrowed Nostalgia for the Unremembered 80's. What a great lyric.
And nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
"Ready Player One" in a nutshell.
curt spins brilliant! 💜
@curt spins It never was
Can't believe James Murphy predicted vaporwave
As a millennial who's having a really hard time struggling to find a career I find this extremely relatable.
BTW If anyone says something disrespectful about me because of my age go back to your basement and suck on your own stereorypes!
Slap #49 was my absolute favorite.
Why?
reighfried36952 because #34 was kinda sloppy.
I'm 99.9% sure you're just joking with us...but I'm probably gonna sit here and count the slaps anyhow. Touche`.
Idk if you planned this but all the slaps come at a certain time but at 49 it doesn't come and the subtly cut to a closet angle at his face then resume back to normal. Then the actual 49th slap comes but is quite ordinary.
Slap #49 is just too mainstream for me.
This is how I feel in the office when the college interns are together talking about all the fun stuff they do. :(
Becoming obsessed with LCD about to give up on med school and move to NYC
+1Young99Man0 I'll gladly switch lives with you...Especially if you already passed OChem!
Good, cause the public didn't want you to touch them anyways...lol...j/k of course. ..fo sho! Follow that dream!!!!
Hope you didn't give up on Med School and actually did both. You should always have a backup plan, even if you come from money.
The Medical Industrial Complex and NYC both suck circa 2021 A.D.
Hope you know Jesus.
@@GOTTshua Jesus is the biggest con ever. You fool.
This song has a great background story which made me enjoy it even more. In an interview, James Murphy said the following:
“When I was DJing, playing Can, Liquid Liquid, ESG, all that kind of stuff, I became kind of cool for a moment, which was a total anomaly. And when I heard other DJs playing similar music I was like: ‘Fuck! I’m out of a job! These are my records!’ But it
was like someone had crept into my brain and said all these words that I hate.
Did I make the records? Did I fuck! So, I started becoming horrified by my own
attitude. I had this moment of glory though. People would use me to DJ just to
get them cool. They’d be like ‘It’s the cool rock disco guy’ and this was really
weird. And to be honest I was afraid that this new found coolness was going to
go away and that’s where ‘Losing My Edge’ comes from. It is about being
horrified by my own silliness. And then it became a wider thing about people who
grip onto other people’s creations like they are their own. There is a lot of
pathos in that character though because it’s born out of inadequacy and love.”
source: wikipedia
Please punch me in the face
oh god, I never heard about this and take a guess if I've played songs by those bands at "cool" restaurants and bars. ouch.
20 year old knob
I can relate to that.
Thanks excellent quote
I've felt this way every day for 20 years.
no kidding.
I'm gooning my edge
Beck: have two turntables and the microphone
James Murphy from LCD Soundsystem: sold turntables
By my count, that's 113 slaps!
Good counting!
What a chance! It's not the long version!
do you know if they actually slapped him?
I hope that James Murphy starts to make music again one day. LCD Soundsystem will always be one of my favourite bands / projects.
New album dropped last week :)
ruclips.net/video/JG17jiPdbb0/видео.htmlsi=11eCtH7kJrjgTf1j
"I was there at the first Can show" Suddenly the song makes sense.
At some point in our lives we're all going to feel like this!
I had no edge. For as long as I remember. I think I found my place now
The best lyrics on the pop culture ever. Kids are coming from behind and they've already won the race you think you're still in. To be relevant, be young (and don't even act like you're staying young) ! This first hit of LCD had its last will inside : we are a swan song band. Burn out ! (it's better). But what luxurious gems Mr Murphy gave us before he closed his wonderful soundsystem !
THIS DIDNT AGE WELL
@@imnot18okay why didn't it age well?
@@17kimberlyhayden9 LCD Soundsystem came back
@@imnot18okay It's probably the best "this didn't age well" that's ever come about. I hope @psykdelia is enjoying the return.
@@TommyFugitive Its a critique of dumb kids who think they're the shit.
GIL SCOTT-HERON!!!! Rest In Piece.
This Heat, Pere Ubu, Outsiders, Nation of Ulysses, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, The Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, Fania All-Stars, The Bar-Kays, The Human League, The Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagra
Joy Division, Lower 48, The Creation, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc
Rammellzee, Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force (just hit me!), Juan Atkins, Manuel Göttsching, 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
+Stanley Zappa I love you stan
+Stanley Zappa I LOVE that you did this! 💜💜💜
marking for later reference because I legitimately know way too few of these
+Stanley Zappa GIL! SCOTT! HERON!
Chris Wilson saved too
'i'm loosing my edge to the kids from France and London' - you always speak the truth mate.
maybe you should tighten your edge
I'm liking my mom's favorite songs more than mine. I'm losing my edge.
Christ I hope they got this in the first take.
Sounds like a band from the 70's called CAN...
These guys are good.
@Hayo098 me too! :-(
fascinating
Old replies from Fanthony Antano.
hey melon
I found you bald man
I'm stoned right now and this video is freaking me out.
I love LCD's videos, almost as mental as their music is brilliant.
This record is so dope.
Brings back rad memories.
Had a blast in NY seeing LCD 2010ish.
Great music, magnificent art.
This is one of the greatest songs ever made!!!
01:46 - But I am losing my edge to better looking people with better ideas and more talent...
That lyric speaks to me on a personal level. xo
"But actually, they're really, really nice."
This song makes fun of people who are like this btw
@Themonkeymartin
at this time in James' career, he felt like he was on the way out of the music industry (... Then he released this song). He is referring to the younger generation of musicians. He actually felt like that. Even worse they were really, really nice as well.
droolthefool At this point he didn't even have a career. This was literally his first public single
@Themonkeymartin he's been in the music scene since the beginning/mid 90's... then he started LCD and they blew up... anyways the point is he is not "making fun of people like this" btw
The Fall have really changed direction.
I played it at CBGB'S everybody thought it was crazy.
We all know now
Wait, you were?
He did the organ sounds.
I wanna be like this guy when I grow up :p
We all do
I love the modern lovers because of this track - thanks Jimmy. I know you’re reading this.
I saw everything you ever saw and saw it before you.. and on so much deeper a level and so much more profundly
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought that this song was just music critic masturbation material.
That's kind of the point.
*****
But you just did?
How short?
Who cares, the song is shit.
Whenever I see the name Gil Scott-Heron my brain always says it in James Murphy's voice.
Matt Sloan sent me here. WttB!
Thank you Billie for introducing me this song 🥹
Total masterpiece. And James Murphy is SO not losing his edge. Even if he tried, he couldn't. The above edge is in his soul and genes.
Can't believe this is from 2002...
James Murphy is one of the best things of the last decade
Comment while you can! I was there years ago and now I'm hearing from people who weren't there how it was.
All these old comments lamenting that they could not see LCD before they broke up.
I just saw them some weeks ago. They played this song. I was there.
dude, this isn't hipster, this is just cool
@SJ363 is it the slapping or the lighting?
Yo, i found 9 years old melon comment with no comments and 2 likes. This is insane.
(P.S: love your content man).
@@ZatSoul lol same
yo melon
thirsty bald man
@@ZatSoul This video keeps appearing and disappearing from RUclips.
Just looked at the lyrics, and the complete set (at least I guess it's the whole thing) is just INSANE. Going to have to search now for a version that has it all. Geezzz.
4 minutes of awesomeness to get to the bad ass hook.
Even though the song doesn't gain momentum for a good minute and a half, his lyrics more then keep my attention. Fantastic song
Don't forget about being slapped in the face every few seconds. That definitely kept my attention as well.
I WAS THERRRRREEEE
this song reminds me of every hipster who thinks that they are so much ahead of every "mainstream" person in terms of their musical taste.
you're just now getting it?
Michael Segal yeah, I was just born yesterday.
a lot of the bands he namedrops here are really fucking good though
Smack Bramhall Yup, basically every one of them :D
Yourveryowncarrot This song reminds me that I am ahead of every "hipster" and "mainstream" person in terms of musical taste.
JM: I came upstairs, played it for Tim (Goldsworthy)
Tim: "I cant even listen to it"
"Dance music has a beautiful history of powerful lyrics. But his lyrics are stupid"
JM - He said, you don't want to put this out, man, you really don't want people to hear this
But ive lived in fear my whole life
And I had nothing to lose"
- Meet Me in the Bathroom
Stop slapping James! He's actually really, really nice.
Saw them live yesterday. This song was brutal.
Ozz González how did they have a reunion concert
such a great song.. the beat is so movin..
James Murphy,your an absolute legend!!&one of the most under-rated singer/songwriters ever!!Love you man! :) xx
One of the coolest videos ever
well i've never listened to this band before or heard anything about them but this is pretty dang nice.
All their sounds are taken from all those old hippies, who actually knew how to play instruments, and write, and read music.
Haha i love the reference to being at the very first can show
This needs to come back and be the anthem for Gen X
Wow -- incredible stuff. I'm an old man, had never heard of this guy & I feel jacked! This soothsayer slams indelible sooths!
Ola auld man.
Hearing and connecting with this band is almost definitely the best thing that'll ever happen to someone.
Midnights, dawns, twilight.
The beach, streets, forests and oceans.
Just walking my dog,
my wee doggie called Bobby.
If you are lucky enough to have this as your soundtrack.
...you don't need anymore luck...
My god, first time I heard this guy with 20 years old I just couldn't get the music and felt bad for myself, but I knew I would get it. That time has arrived. Brilliant.
Happy 2023! 🎈
"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. "
I'm so sad that I never got to see them live and go to their funeral. So much regret :( Every single one of their songs is a masterpiece!!
If only you knew.
Saw them last weekend and FUCKKKKKKKKKKK
i heard everyone you know is more relevant than everyone i know - love it!
One of the Best songs ever recorded
Watching a documentary on Talking Heads made me listen to this.
It's about how modern day 'kids' have huge access to all music now thanks to the internet. He was saying he collected all his stuff in physical form e.g records ( he even worked in a record store) Now today he feels he has lost his relevance to them - things changing so rapidly with technology thus 'losing my edge'
+Amber Haynes Best explanation I've read so far.
Thank you Marite :)
+Amber Haynes He is saying that but at the same time he's making fun of himself for believing he's such an elitist knowitall. He's condemning both sides but I would say he's condemning himself more than anything.
I agree with that interpretation he's basically saying he was the elitist know it all- but the new age has come about so he's ;lost' his edge.
(The new age being kids of the technology age)
Lyrics to this,like all the rest of LCDs songs,are absolute class!But words in this song are so underated,&pure genius!!Everyone in the whole world should have this bands name on the edge of their lips!!
This video was the bane of every after party I’ve been too because I wanted to play it and it wasn’t on RUclips for years
It’s been on RUclips 14 years.
“Now were you rushing, or were you dragging?”
@cassandramountakis maybe it's age or irrelevancy slapping him in the face? bit of a stretch, but that's what i think.
@MrCuriousQ ancient fantano comment
@@switch1e rare fantano
ok melon
tfw he was there
oldthany commentano
Bro lost his edging streak💀
He was slapped a grand total of 114 times (not counting repeated clips)
This beat will make you do eye opening things.
Plus the beat is fab.
Yeah, I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge
The kids are coming up from behind
I'm losing my edge
I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London
But I was there
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
To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin
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 [2x]
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 CBGB's
Everybody thought I was crazy
We all know
I was there [2x]
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 Peech Boys. All the underground hits. All the Modern Lovers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Niagara 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, Mars, The Trojans, The Black Dice, Todd Terry, The Germs, Section 25, Althea and Donna, Sexual Harrassment, a-ha, Pere Ubu, Dorothy Ashby, PIL, Fania All-Stars, The Bar-Kays, The Human League, The Normal, Lou Reed, Scott Walker, Monks, Niagara
Joy Division, Laurent Garnier, The Creation, Sun Ra, Scientists, Royal Trux, 10cc
Rammellzee, Eric B. and Rakim, Index, Basic Channel, Soulsonic Force (just hit me!), Juan Atkins, Manuel Göttsching, 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 [15x]
Since I first heard this...I have muttered the same thing to myself...This generation's "Sympathy for the Devil." I agree with you completely!
This guy is a fucking genius he is one of the best artists ever
That reason is because it's intelligent dance music with stream of consciousness lyrics. And because James Murphy is a huge Talking Heads fan.
Yo this song still slaps!!
All have always digged thier music. Just now beginning to realize they are music geniuses!!
Damn, I love LCD Soundsystem and also a lot of bands that Murphy named in this song. Twice cool.
Good. Edging is bad for your prostate.
+xboxpro97 is this actually true cause edging is great man
+xboxpro97 bullshit, ow
who said anything about not coming?
Una de las diez mejores canciones de lo que llevamos de siglo XXI sin lugar a duda. Sobresaliente.
In 2018 the term Edgelord has added a layer of hilarity to this song.
And I was there when the video first dropped on RUclips 12 years ago.
And I was there, when James Murphy, first made the LCD Soundsystem RUclips channel.