No Vanguard Revival

If the members of the groups whose spirit you summon appeared in this room right now all the sudden... Would they sign off on how you studied their time? How you subtly refined their vocab and mind? Or would they say 'Look here - what have we spawned? It's a culture of pawns It's a lake full of small ponds' While we were doing Velvets They were doing Dada They turned on a sonnet And ripped it back on it While we were doing Pink Flag ecstatic at half mast Still doing Velvets Still doing Elvis And there's no vanguard revival No vanguard revival No vanguard revival False concept' The vanguard never was A false concept Classical is modern Returning is modern If there's no vanguard revival Then the vanguard never was