`What a Waste` is a song and single by Ian Dury and the Blockheads, originally released on the Stiff Records single BUY 27 `What a Waste` / `Wake Up and Make Love with Me`. The song has remained in The Blockheads` set following Dury`s death. Essentially a song about being in a job that makes you happy, Dury claimed in a 1984 interview with...