Songfacts®:

• Alex Turner's lyrics are often opaque. Case in point: "I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am." The references to "retina scans," "disco strobes" and the like have left us scratching our heads. Here's what we can glean:
  
  The lyrics suggest Turner is mixing with other celebrities.
  
  But it's always worth half a blast
  You know the face but you can't see past
  
  He's on a yacht:
  
  Wait, there's the other island now
  Formation displays of affection fly over
  Eyes roll back
  And I can see both islands now
  
  The yacht is approaching the coast of the French Riviera:
  
  Looks like the Riviera
  Is coming into land
  
  Turner repeats the title three times during the song, signifying he's disorientated and feeling out of place.
  
  Blank expressions invite me to suspect
  I ain't quite where I think I am
• When Turner wrote the song, he was spending a lot of time in France with his girlfriend, the French singer-songwriter Louise Verneuil.
  
• Alex Turner wrote the funky song with Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. The band's regular producer, James Ford, helmed the track.
• Arctic Monkeys debuted "I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am" during their show at Zurich Openair festival in Switzerland on August 23, 2022.
• Ben Chappell and Zackery Michael directed the live video. They filmed it at Brooklyn's Kings Theatre in September 2022.
• The funky number features interweaving wah-wah guitar. Turner experimented with the wah-wah guitar on both "Jet Skis On The Moat" and "I Ain't Quite Where I Think I Am." It was, he told NME, the latter song "where everything clicked."