The Fastest Kid Alive is the fifth studio album by the American punk rock band the Adolescents, released in June 2011 on Concrete Jungle Records.

In March 2007, bassist Steve Soto stated that he, singer Tony Reflex, guitarist Frank Agnew, and drummer Derek O'Brien were working on new songs and hoped to have an album out by the end of the year.

[7] To coincide with this tour they released a split EP with French band Burning Heads, featuring the new songs "Serf City" and "One Nation, Under Siege".

[12][13] To promote the album, they released three new songs through streaming media that July—"Tokyo au Go-Go", "Peace Don't Cost a Thing", and "The Jefferson Memorial Dance Revolution"—and another three the following month: "Learning to Swim", "Inspiration", and "Serf City".

[18] The Adolescents supported it with a tour from June through August that took them to Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Australia, and Japan.