Gen X.   Should have been copyrighted by somebody.   Coupland for his book?   Billy Idol for his band?    Common elements I see:  

• Expo 67 as a kid
• punk rock began just around puberty
• recessions hit just around started looking for work

All the emotional drag of the Cold War without the economic upside of the boomers - remember how Gwynne Dyer's War made everything around you look like a target?

But has all that left a mark?  I have read two novels recently, How to Be Good by Nick Hornby and Acting the Giddy Goat by...somebody else which appear to say there is, that the pointlessness of the slacker life is wearing.   I found them both a bit off.  

I mean, if you cannot celebrate the sofa over the SUV or the TV over the theatre, sure you may find your life lacking.  But if you've lived through grim Gwynne teling you Ronnie and Leo are going to smoke you before you hit 21 for being you and lived...well, that sofa and an ale is looking mighty worthwhile, thank you very much.