I started watching the LCD Soundsystem documentary, and I couldn’t get past this one part where music journalist Chuck Klosterman and LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy talk about the song “Losing My Edge.”
And now it’s like I’m haunted. I wrote about it on my personal blog, and played it on my show, and I’m writing about it here to try and exorcise it from my consciousness. Too many associated feelings about the kids coming up from behind, with better ideas and more talent and who are really, really nice.
Anyway, here’s the show.
LCD Soundsystem – “Losing My Edge”
Thom Yorke – “And It Rained All Night”
The National – “Afraid of Everyone”
The Arcade Fire – “The Well and the Lighthouse”
Spoon – “My Mathematical Mind”
Fleet Foxes – “He Doesn’t Know Why”
Okkervil River – “Lost Coastlines”
Wolf Parade – “I’ll Believe in Anything”
Neutral Milk Hotel – “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”
The Shins – “Sleeping Lessons”
Spoon – “Don’t Make Me a Target”
Dirty Projectors – “No Intention”
Radiohead – “Kid A”
Vampire Weekend – “I Stand Corrected”
Department of Eagles – “No One Does It Like You”
Death Cab for Cutie – “That’s Incentive”
Bon Iver – “Lump Sum”
The Black Keys – “She’s Long Gone”
Beck – “Modern Guilt”
Sufjan Stevens – “Jacksonville”
Arctic Monkeys – “Brick by Brick”
Silversun Pickups – “Lazy Eye”
Japandroids – “The Nights of Wine and Roses”
They Might Be Giants – “XTC vs. Adam Ant”
The Postal Service – “This Place is a Prison”
Modest Mouse – “The World at Large”