"The thing that makes pop music so great is the way it parallel-parks on the bleeding edge of cool: nothing could be better at this moment than this beat, this feeling, this chorus. It takes something ephemeral and impossible, and for three to four exhilarating minutes, it makes it accessible and real. “Losing My Edge” is a song that’s already bled out. It sticks its nose in all the parts you’re supposed to ignore: jealousy, resentment, sarcasm, age. But it’s not obnoxious in the way “funny” music often is. The real trick is that it’s hitting you while it’s heckling you—the song bangs, even if the vocalist is a crank. I still don’t quite know how he did it. Most breakthrough singles are about first love. “Losing My Edge” is about first loss. And the second. And the third. And etc. etc. until everyone is just a jaded music critic in the bar right after the ugly light switches on. And you’re dancing too much to care."
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, in Meet Me in the Bathroom by Lizzy Goodman (2017)
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LCD Soundsystem
is a New York City-based American dance-punk/rock band which was active from 2001 until its . During this time, they released three studio albums, ', ' and '. The band resumed activity in the winter of 2015 with the release of , and subsequently released "call the police/american dream" and announced its fourth LP, , for release on September 1st, 2017. It was founded by , and is made up of James Murphy, Pat Mahoney, Phil Mossman, Tyler Pope & Nancy Whang + Matt Thornley, Al Doyle, David Ascot St
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