I Want to Be a Machine

Ultravox.[1] "I Want to Be a Machine." Album: Ultravox!, track 4. Written by John Foxx & Billy Currie. Release date 25 February 1977.[2] As of April 2023, available on YouTube with clips from METROPOLIS here[3], also, audio only (with still of album cover), here.[4]

Note lines on Genius.com (linked above), "Im Mitternacht, die Mensch-Maschine / Kissed me on the eyes [...]," and the refrain, "I want to be a machine / I want to be a machine / I want to be a machine". Cf. and contrast Kraftwerk, Die Mensch/Maschine (The Man/Machine) (1978).

Jim Flannery, with thanks (e-mail 28Jun04), RDE, finishing, 16Ap23