Ongoing Issue - Not a Pretty Scene Lyrics

What're we gonna do when the Bosstones finally retire?

Will people wonder where the 90s went when nostalgia doesn't cut it?
In an aging population, when the youth group doesn't need it does
The upstroke still denote a sense of authentic independence?
Is it even controversial outside it's own insistence
That it's more than comic fodder for ex-girlfriends and their mothers?
I'm just thinking out loud to chords I've put in songs before
But I can't quit this preoccupation with these questions I can't answer like:

What're we gonna do?

Will people wonder what a ska show was when the culture's ancient history?
When there's no coins in the cashbox?
When no bands can fill a venue and
The fourth wave doesn't happen cause these checks can't turn a profit
Just a bunch of tiny fish all tryina feed off a dead market, no
It's not a pretty scene, this ain't a model for succession
It's a suicide machine for poorly managed expectations
No, it's not a pretty scene
That's a critique not a suggestion
No, it's not a pretty scene, and I don't think it's getting better