The clash were headed for a head on collision   Crash for complete control   The pistols left behind a swindle and a scandal   That nobody wished to handle   Sham 69 were left in a shambles, Generation X was next      Elvis and Nick Lowe, they had a go   With the help of the attractions   And Joe Jackson said it wasn't his style   Dave Edmund survived alive on top of a rock pile      Devo didn't know if they were men   Because they couldn't get no satisfaction   The rats were caught in their own trap   Steve Strange began to change      Ultravox had a system   Kraftwerk nearly beat them   And the yellow magic orchestra missed them   Eno rose for Lowe      The slits became rasta   And the buzz cocks played faster and faster with adrenalin   John Cooper Clarke he was smart   The public image became limited   The police were re released and came out as a three piece      The 'Rocky Horror Show' became the history of tomorrow   Nina Hagen, she was a German maiden   And the music press revealed their anger   When threatened by the stranglers      This broadcast was brought to you in 1979   I'm just talking to you over these waves   Not just about another time and another place   And before we knew it   The old wave was gone and controlled