It's "Rip It Up" by the seminal Scottish post-punk band Orange Juice. Check out a youngish Edwyn Collins fronting the band on their highest-charting UK single, a track which lent its name to the classic Simon Reynolds book. "Rip it Up" was released in November of 1982. Years later, Collins would have a solo hit with "A Girl Like You".
It's worth noting that a version of the rhythm guitar riff in this song is reminiscent of Captain Sensible's awful-yet -irresistible "Wot?" which came out the same year -- and both songs pretty much owe their existence to Chic's "Good Times".
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