What happened to Generation X? Millenials dominate our Facebook feeds and folks bang on about the infant boomers – but how about us? The lost generation, the center youth, the middle child of today. Are we still great?

Generation X? Keep in mind them? The kids who believed they’d never develop up. The generation Douglas Coupland immortalised in his novel of the same name. The wry, knowing navel-gazers enthusiastic about cool and becoming awesome who today are sandwiched between the boomers from the 60s about Right now We Are 40 as well as the millennials.

Gen X’ers came old against a backdrop of Britpop and the Spice Girls, Tarantino and Pulp Fiction, Madchester as well as the Rock Roses, acid home and rave, super night clubs, Ministry and Cream. They holidayed in Ibiza high on hooch and E rather than ever believed there’d be a comedown.

So whatever occurred to them?

We turned 40. So that as Tiffanie Darke points out in this witty exploration of the era who defied generalisation, we’re not really handling it all that well…

Where once we wore floaty skirts and Doc Martins, now we’re sporting Scandi fashion and ‘interesting’ trainers. We still party in Ibiza however now bodyboard in Cornwall. Where once mixtapes were the best mating call, right now we consider selfies and swap Spotify playlists – all the while conspicuously wearing huge Dr Beats headphones and casually departing older packets of Kingsize Rizla lying round our open up plan kitchens.

Moreover, Gen X are actually in charge. In government, running a business and the creative industries. Probably the most anti-establishment of decades has now end up being the establishment. But simply because tech overtakes the arts as society’s great shaping force, Tiffanie ponders – does cool and its quest still matter? If Gen X acquired it sorted, offered us Barack Obama and downward facing dogs, why is tension the brand new flu? What makes we working not really for love any longer – or great – but to avoid negative collateral and depleting pension pots?

In Today We Are 40, Tiffanie interviews some of the most iconic Gen X’ers such as Pearl Lowe, Richard Reed and Blur’s bassist Alex Adam to check out how Gen X live their lifestyle among being youthful and old, and exactly how it feels to want to burn down the establishment and then realise that now you will be the establishment.