About me:

I'M LOSING MY EDGE Humeur actuelle : exalté Yeah, I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge. The kids are coming up from behind. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge to the kids from France and from London. But I was there. I was there in 1984. I was there at the first Jesus and Mary Chain 12 minutes full feedback show in Glasgow university. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks. I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1972 to 1988. I'm losing my edge. To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin. I'm losing my edge but I was there when the Velvet Underground played together for the first time in 20 years at the Andy Warhol retrospective at the Fondation Cartier. But I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge, but I was there. I was there in 1989 at the first My Bloody Valentine show in France. Yeah I was there. I was there in Lee Renaldo's New York flat when Glenn Branca tough Sonic Youth how to prepare their guitars. I'm losing my edge. I'm losing my edge. I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks. But I was there. I was there in 1981 at the first New Order practices after Ian Curtis suicide. I was working on the beats sounds with much patience to come to blue monday. I was there in Bristol, England, when Daddy G, 3D and Mushroom started their project out of the Wild Bunch. I told them, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime." I was there. I was the first guy playing Daft Punk to the rock kids. I played it at CBGB's. Everybody thought I was crazy. We all know. I was there. I was there. I've never been wrong. I used to work in the record store. I had everything before anyone. I was there in the Acienda with Laurent Garnier when Mike Pickering played the first house track ever played on this side of the atlantic ocean. I was there in Jamaica during the great sound clashes. I woke up naked on the beach in Ibiza in 1988. I was there in Rennes when Underground Resistance rocked the first Transmusicales'rave party. I was there at the TAD-Nirvana gig at the Fahrenheit in Issy les Moulineaux. I was there when Aphex Twin played the Apocalypse at the Bourget parc expo. I was there in the Bronx when Grand Master Flash gave the message. I was there when the Fabulous Trobadors gave their first gig in a small café in the Felix Castan area of Toulouse. I was there for the two Borealis Nights in les arènes de Nîmes, I was there when the Stone Roses organized their own festival at Spike Island in Widnes, the concert drew over 30, 000 people. I was in Paris Jazz club the New Morning when Galaxie 500 teleported the audience out of this world… But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent. And they're actually really, really nice. I'm losing my edge. But I was there in Reading for the Festival, in 1987, 88, 89, 90, 91 and 92, and also at Universe 93, 94 and 95 Yeah, I was there in Rennes, capital of the French Brittany in 1990, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, 98, 99, & 2000 for les Rencontres Transmusicales. I was the first journalist in France to write about Mercury Rev, Morphine, Carl Craig, Daniel Johnston, Coldcut, the Flaming Lips, Chemical Brothers & Beck. I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody. Every great song by Ween. All the underground hits. All the tracks recorded by Matthew Herbert. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shimmy Discs record on US import, and every Rephlex artefacts. I heard that you have a white label of every seminal Detroit techno hit - 1985, '86, '87. I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s reggae cuts and another box set from the most psychedelic sounds of the '70s. But do you know that I have all the Pixies records on vinyl ? That I saw Nirvana live 12 times. Do you know that I toured France with Teenage Fanclub, rolling joints in their bus for a week. I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your computer out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mouse On Mars record. I hear that you and your band have sold your guitars and bought turntables. I hear that you and your band have sold your turntables and bought guitars. I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know. But have you seen my records? Sam & Valley, Kid Loco, The Pastels, Money Mark, Marvin Gaye "What's Going On" on Tamla Motown, Pavement "Slanted and enchanted", All The Beatles originals, Portishead "Dummy", Cocorosie "La Maison de mon Rêve », Curtis Mayfield "Super Fly", Dinosaur Jr "Bug", De La Soul "3 feat high & rising", Suicide, Lou Reed & John Cale "Songs for Drella", Elvis Costello & The Attractions "Punch the Clock", all the Thelonious Monk on Riverside in the 50's, Tom Waits "Rain Dogs", Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Leila "Like Weather", "Rattlesnakes", Dread Zone, Suzanne Vega, Homelife "Flying Wonders", Codeine "Frigid Stars", Bongwater, The Smith, The Ex & Tom Cora, Mazzy Star "She Hangs Brightly", Yo La Tengo, Tipsy, Sabre Of Paradise, David Holmes, King Tubby, Leftfield, Prefab Sprout "Steve Mc Queen", Miles Davis "Bag's Groove", Babes In Toyland "Spanking Machine", 22 Pistepirkko, Plastikman, PJ Harvey "Dry", The Upsetters, Tricky, Martin Stephenson and the Daintees "Boat to Bolivia", Julee Cruise "Floating into the Night", Motorbass "Pansoul", House Of Love, Animal Collective, DJ Shadow, A Guy Called Gerald, Suzanne Vega, Alex Reece, Prince, Van Morrisson "Asral Weeks", Day One "Ordinary Man", Shop Assistants, The Doors, Sex Pistols "Never Mind the Bollocks", DMX Krew "The sound of the streets", King Missile, Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back", Bob Dylan "Highway 61 Revisited", Chris Isaak "Silvertone", Monster Magnet "Spine of a god", Sonny Rollins, Goldie "Timeless", Jah Wobble, Sebadoh, Nightmare On Wax "Smokers Delight", Primal Scream "Screamadelica", Plastikman, The Avalanches, Up, Bustle & Out, Morning Star, Elliott Smith, Josh Wink, Nuyorican Soul, Röyksopp "Melody A.M.", Akabu "Warrior Queen", G. Love & Special Sauce "Ain't that easy", Linton Kwesi Johnson "Forces of Victory", Shivaree "I oughtta give you a shot in the head for making me live in this dump", Everything But The Girl "Walking Wounded", Happy Mondays, Louis and the Good Book, Señor Coconut, Bob Dylan, Serge Gainsbourg, Momus, The Housemartins, Janes Addiction "Ritual de lo Habitual", Kraftwerk, Pale Fountains "From Across the Kitchen Table", Bim Sherman "Miracle", Bongwater, Ray Barretto "Acid", John S. Hall & Kramer "Real Men", Four Tet « Rounds », Pascal Comelade, Faze Action "Moving Cities", Fugazi, The Cramps, Losoul, Madness, Gonzales, TV on the Radio, Missy Elliott "so addictive" you don't know what you really want.