Mc solaar carpe diem restaurant

Before with francs I went and bought Picorettes [Picorettes: a brand of candies]

Now with euros what I'm asking for are Nicorettes

The streets of Paris are filled with scooters, ain't no mopeds anymore

Industrial darwinism, from the Minitel to the internet

The 118 618 replaced the 12 [phone numbers for directory enquiries]

And then Moreno's card wants to outshine the coins [Robert Moreno: patented the secure chip on smart cards in 1974; flouze: French slang for money, "dough"]

Time goes by, and it erases your Radiocom 2000 [first generation mobile phones, equipping cars]

Your Tam-Tam, your Bi-bop your Tatoo your Thermolactyl [Tam-tam: a pager service, now obsolete; Bi-bop: another precursor to modern GSM phones; Tatoo, yet another pager service; thermolactyl: a synthetic fiber invented by French brand Damart in 1959; especially warm.]

On tv, you had the 5 and TV6

At the movies it was Bebel, in nightclubs they played Genesis

Gore-tex replaces d