Sussex, UK-hailing, old-stager soul composer Matt Saxton’s latest song is stirring. ‘The Edge of Things’ is about of course being on the edge of things, whose interpretation falls on both sides of the coin. It’s either sadly being at the edge of all endings or hopefully being at the edge of beginning something new. An astutely crafted song, that’s why fatally hopeful.
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“I am on the edge of things, I wanna be front and center, But I can’t seem to even enter..”, is a desperate call from a person who is a seer to his successful future yet sees life to be crumbling at the moment. Someone who goes through this hopelessness can fathom the depth of his writing. ‘The Edge of Things’ is a soul calling to their fate.
To be the End or not to be
The longingly sad lyrics, “I’m on the edge of things after I come in someone else’s film…the curtain falls and I join the applause” makes one smirk with dry humour of existential crisis. Although the song has no optimistic ending it is not hopeless. Saxton with his creative cleverness has fashioned the line “I’m on the edge of things, and that goes for everything” with irony. There is a deep self-acceptance in his knowing, “I need to be the leading man, but no one seems to understand” which the world is currently failing to unfurl.
With a beautiful piano initiating the vibe and saxophone jazzing up the rhythm, this song is a folk-pop-soul-country feel. Matt’s voice which he has been lending to this world for the past two decades is enamouring. It never ends up mesmerizing the eardrums. This multi-instrumentalist Saxton has won our hearts once again with ‘The Edge of Things’.
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