ray davies - my name (dialogue) lyrics

my name is of no importance. you see, i'm a product of a century
which started at the height of class-conscious imperialism and ended
with a society so reduced to totalitarian commonness that in my final
years at college the saying 'mediocrity rises' became very popular.
and being mediocre, i rose. but you're not supposed to laugh at that.
my generation has been taught to be so in touch with the latest fashion
that we have become faceless; we're victims of design.
but, oddly enough, although i was taught to think of myself as a man
with no face, somewhere inside my soul i believe that one day
i'll become an individual.