It is well known that for many knot classes in the 3-sphere, any closed incompressible surface in their complements has an essential loop which is isotopic to a loop on the boundary of the knot exterior. In this paper, we investigate closed incompressible surfaces in knot complements with this property. We will show that for a closed incompressible surface which is not the peripheral torus, the slope of such the loops on the boundary of the knot exterior is unique, moreover, if the slope is non-meridional, then the surface contains the unique essential loop up to isotopy. A necessary and sufficient condition for knots to bound totally knotted Seifert surfaces is given.