This might be about a hipster growing up, realizing everyone around him is ten years younger, and gets out of the scene. He's saying the scene politics were the birthplace of his hatred. He's sick of the pointless competition. This is all implied in the lyrical "verse" chunk of the song, but then it veers into the chorus about losing friends and I'm not sure how this would fit into the proposed storyline, but it seems like he's saying he wants to have real friends and not imposters posing as his friends. If everyone abandons him, he wants to know about it and not go on living with these "fake friends." This sounds like typical 'hipster'/'scenester' behavior so it might fit into the original idea of him leaving the scene.
This might be about a hipster growing up, realizing everyone around him is ten years younger, and gets out of the scene. He's saying the scene politics were the birthplace of his hatred. He's sick of the pointless competition. This is all implied in the lyrical "verse" chunk of the song, but then it veers into the chorus about losing friends and I'm not sure how this would fit into the proposed storyline, but it seems like he's saying he wants to have real friends and not imposters posing as his friends. If everyone abandons him, he wants to know about it and not go on living with these "fake friends." This sounds like typical 'hipster'/'scenester' behavior so it might fit into the original idea of him leaving the scene.