Patrick Freyne

It's about middle aged people coming to terms with something.

And I just thought the title was so apt because a lot of what the book is about is people feeling obsolete.

You know, they're not obsolete.

And the book, I think, is ultimately kind of hopeful.

But that idea that, you know, I love the idea of being an expert.

I think most people.

Well, I think journalists are exactly all identical.

Definitely musicians feel it.

Do you think middle aged people start feeling obsolete?

You know, the way middle age is very empowered now and everyone's doing stuff and living their best lives still in middle age.

Is there a slight little annoying voice saying there's a new generation or two come up behind you?

I think that it is correct to have the optimistic attitude that you can still do interesting things and that you've got some perspective on stuff.

But everything is a little bit tempered by...

the stuff we've been through, like the corners are battered off you a bit by the time you're, like I'm 51.

So by the time you're 51, all those kind of, those edges are knocked off you a bit.

Yeah.

And you go into town or you go to a gig or something and you go, this is not my town anymore.

There was a time when this was my town.

When you're strutting down the street.

Yeah.