I think the "recycling trash" bit probably refers to his sometimes ultra-negative estimate of his own work. When the punk movement was breaking into prominence he thought they were the future and he was the past, washed-up, a "prostitute" as he put it. None of that was true, but that was Townshend's view in his more depressive and/or drunk moments.
I think the "recycling trash" bit probably refers to his sometimes ultra-negative estimate of his own work. When the punk movement was breaking into prominence he thought they were the future and he was the past, washed-up, a "prostitute" as he put it. None of that was true, but that was Townshend's view in his more depressive and/or drunk moments.