My Gap Feels Weird

From music.avclub.com/superchunk-s-mac-mccaughan-talks-weird-gaps-magical-ha-1798240259:

AVC: The phrase “my gap feels weird” came from your daughter, right?

MM: I don’t know how old she was at the time, probably 4 or something like that, and I was driving her to school in the morning, and she just said that out of the blue. [Laughs.] I looked back and she was messing with somewhere that she had lost a tooth, and she was like, “My gap feels weird where I lost my tooth.” I thought it was hilarious. I don’t think I immediately thought, “I’ve gotta write a song about that,” but I think I probably wrote it down or remembered it to tell my wife, because it was such a funny phrase, but also could apply to so many things. [Laughs.] The song ended up being more about feeling that age gap, of going to a rock show and being older and not recognizing anyone else there, being into the show and being into the band and everything. I don’t even remember what band it was, but then feeling self-conscious like, “What do all these young people think about old people being here?” [Laughs.] “Are we getting the same thing out of this music, or something totally different?” I think it’s a combination of affection for people 20 years younger than me, but also alienation, of those things kind of co-existing.

AVC: Everybody who stays involved hits that point. It seems like it only gets worse as you get older.

MM: I remember saying to Frank, who owns the Cat’s Cradle—and this is even years before that—just looking around at some show and being like, “Who are all these people?” He’s like, “It’s like college town, new students, same age every year.” [Laughs].