Only When I Lose Myself

is a song from the 1998 compilation album The Singles 86>98 by Depeche Mode. It was released as a single on 7 September 1998.
== Notes ==
 told Associated Press:
"'Only When I Lose Myself' is a bit more soulful, and it's quite slow for us. Kind of like a ballad, but it's a bit of a rockin' ballad. It's about relationships, one of my favorite topics. I've always found love quite obsessional. People talk about co-dependency; to me I've always found there's something co-dependent about being in love — that's what love is all about." 
Dave Gahan told Gear Magazine in 1998:
"You feel happy when you're living your life through something else or somebody else, and that can be a painful thing when you become aware that you've lost yourself within that. Being aware, though, is learning to deal with things and getting on with your life. That's why I'm unhappy. Until I find myself and I'm happy with myself, how can I possibly find happiness in anything else. For me, it felt really good, it's kind of where I'm at in my life as well."
Depeche Mode said in the Singles 86>98 EPK:
Martin Gore: "It's a ballad that's quite slow for us to put out as a single, generally our faster stuff does a bit better, always tends to, anyway. But I think it's got a really good atmosphere, something quite obsessional about it."
Dave Gahan: "I think it's a continuation of what we did with Ultra, but we got a lot more soulful. During the making of Ultra, I've become a lot more confident about my singing. I felt like I was doing something that was from me and not for everybody else. I challenge myself to, like, I wanna get better at this. I wanna feel myself improving at something, and for a long time now I felt like I wasn't improving. I lost my way a little bit there, and fortunately I am very grateful for the opportunity to make to Ultra. I had the chance, musically, to feel like I'm actually producing something that really adds to it, [and] is really part of the sound of Depeche Mode. I think 'Only When I Lose Myself' is like I went to a place in the song that felt good inside. I have to think about the words that Martin has written but how I see them, how I feel about them. I think we all influence each other like that. Even though we don't know directly that we're doing it, I think that we bounce off each other, and I think that's what makes Depeche Mode still work."
Gahan told :
"Although it's very soulful, I think it's got an intense feel about it. There's something about the song that I think makes you want to drive harder. It pumps along quite well. We were just recording a few songs, and... we had the time and the space to explore some other areas. We had the time to actually relax with this one, and it went in quite a few different directions before we landed, really."
Gore in BONG magazine issue no. 37, 1998:
"I see this song as a soul song. I think that Depeche Mode does soul on the right side of the soul line again."
== Music video ==
== Live performances ==
Category:Singles
Category:Depeche Mode songs
Category:Depeche Mode singles
Category:Songs in A♭ Minor
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