After playing like every club in the world, Detroit’s techno legend type Jimmy Edgar speaks out about his stripper mum and self loathing.

SF: You’ve been DJing since you were a teen, but what was your last day job?
Jimmy Edgar: My resume is extensive.  I worked as a graphic designer at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, where I mainly designed all the visuals for each exhibition and market.  I was a makeup artist at the county morgue as well, that’s where I got access to shooting ‘the models’ before I moved to NYC and got into fashion photography.  Other than that, I made hip hop for dudes in Detroit/NYC… pretty much always lived on it.

SF: Coming from the home of so many genres of music, who or what do you think has influenced your music?
Jimmy Edgar: I say this countless times when people ask me, my music is strictly R&B.  I grew up on Prince and underground shit like Steve Poindexter and Dominatrix.  My mum was a stripper so I got to hear it all.  I learned how to make music in the Baptist church, I was the only white kid but it was cool ’cause I was there for the music, not the Jesus.

SF: Any dream collaborators?
Jimmy Edgar: The Dream.  maybe Busta or Missy… I wouldn’t mind making Madonna make some horsey squeels though.

SF: Roughly how many haircuts do you go through in a year?
Jimmy Edgar: Probably 100, when I can’t sleep I end up in the bathroom, at some point trimming my split ends like a bitch.  I have this self loathing thing going on.