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The Specials song who dropped in top ten initially rocked (5,4)

Crikey! Getting hotter, race to secure a community left abandoned (5,4)

Down clue, where ‘getting hotter’ = raising the H in ‘gosh’
Race = TT
Secure = OWN

This area, in bed with EU, might go down the tubes (5,4)

anag GO DOWN THE TUBES - BED EU

Got shot down. Do not twist in Spokane perhaps (5,4)

Lack of presence in Antigonish? (5,4)

Antigonish is a town in Nova Scotia.
It's also the title of a poem inspired by reports of a ghost in a house in said town. Aka 'The Little Man That Wasn't There. "

Soul city? (5,4)

Germans lead prostitute to street outside urban area, where she may get the willies? (5,4)

Not sure if 'getting the willies' is a phrase known everywhere. It means to be frightened/nervous/scared etc.
I'm assuming that willy/willies is pretty much universal, though.

Probably should be German's.

Abandoned Goths' place that is quiet and eerie(5,4)

Rundown place defined by community spirit? Quite the reverse! (5, 4)