The track is arguably the first to use this particular sound, and rose to cult underground popularity thanks to DJ Ron Hardy's Music Box club in Chicago.
Close friend and production partner on "I've Lost Control", Marshall Jefferson, paid tribute to Harris, who he called a "true pioneer".
"[3] After Jesse Saunders released “On and On” in 1984, a Guitar Center salesperson talked Jefferson into buying thousands of dollars worth of production gear.
[4] Jefferson and Harris experimented with the equipment, with Marshall secretly passing demo cassettes to a local club DJ, Ron Hardy at The Music Box, under the production credit pseudonym of Virgo.
“I’ll never forget: I came back from the Power Plant [club] one morning, at about ten or eleven o’clock – and I called Marshall,” said Sleezy.
I wanted to basically put a nervous breakdown on vinyl.” Harris continues “I’m not going to say I was high as hell, but believe me, ‘I’ve Lost Control’ was inspired by the night I had,” he laughed.
Marshall Jefferson suggested for Channel 4 that although Harris may have discovered the original sound, DJ Pierre of Phuture probably deserves the mantle of Godfather of Acid.