I don't think it's literally about being too old to rock'n'roll. It's more about clinging to the glory days of your youth, whatever they may have been. Do you try to stay as you were, when everyone else has "sold their souls straight down the line" and all you are now is an anachronism? Or do you sacrifice everything you believed in, and give it up to be like all your old mates are now? If you can't do the first one and won't do the second, there's nothing left except to go out in a blaze of glory. It's a beautiful and powerful message, all the more so as you get older and watch life going past you, while longing for the good old days.
I don't think it's literally about being too old to rock'n'roll. It's more about clinging to the glory days of your youth, whatever they may have been. Do you try to stay as you were, when everyone else has "sold their souls straight down the line" and all you are now is an anachronism? Or do you sacrifice everything you believed in, and give it up to be like all your old mates are now? If you can't do the first one and won't do the second, there's nothing left except to go out in a blaze of glory. It's a beautiful and powerful message, all the more so as you get older and watch life going past you, while longing for the good old days.