Lyrics:

The Song:

In the movie Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, there are a number of bands. One band is called Sex Bob-Omb, and Beck wrote the music that it plays in the film.

For the movie, Beck wrote and recorded a bunch of tracks. He then re-recorded a handful of them to be used as Sex Bob-Omb songs, which were sung by one of the actors in the band. 4 of the actor-sung songs are on the soundtrack. But 3 of Beck's originals are included as bonus tracks. "Threshold" is one of the ones where both have been released.

In typical self-deprecatory fashion, Beck was embarrassed by this song: "I mostly felt bad because there were so many mistakes in that song. It’s much easier to learn to play something that has consistency. But almost every song is a first take, and completely unrehearsed. I was proud that some of the bad notes were left in there. I think things tend to get scrubbed for Hollywood films, but this was relatively less-polished."

Also, Beck played it live once in 2009, over a year before the soundtrack was released.

Live:

Played live once:
March 11, 2009