You Just Pick Up A Little Bit

Being A Die-hard Knicks Fan, I Remember Hunting Down These Orange-and-blue Nikes That They Only Released In England. And I Used To Hunt For Sneakers When I Dj'd In Japan. But Then Nike Flooded The Market With A Head-spinning Array Of Color Combinations And It Just Didn't Seem Cool Anymore.

Basically, There's A Good Friend Of Mine Who Works At Emi Publishing, A Publishing Company. He Had Asked Me - He Was Like, You Know, Do You Know This Girl, Amy Winehouse? She's In New York For A Day. She's Kind Of Meeting People To Maybe Work With On Her Second Album.

I Didn't Really Get That Good At Cutting Because I Didn't Have Those Three Years Of Gestating And Nurturing My Skills In The Bedroom. I Was Kind Of, Like, Out And Playing In Clubs After Three Of Four Months, Because I Was Pushy With Promoters. But I Would Just Listen To The Radio - Stretch Armstrong And Red Alert - And Then I Would Go Hang Out With Mayhem, Who Did The Wnyu Hip-hop Show.

I Used To Be A Serious Sneaker Addict, But I've Moved On A Little Bit From Those Days.

And I Remember That About Three Years Before That, Her First Record Had Come Out. And I Just Remember Really Liking This One Song Off It Called "in My Bed" And Being A Little Bit Enamored. This, You Know, This Young Kind Of Jewish Girl From North London, You Know, I Have The Same Thing - From A Jewish Family From North London - With This Incredible Voice.