Songfacts®:

• "Losing My Sense Of Taste" is an introspective song where Pretenders lead singer Chrissie Hynde explores cultural fatigue and a sense of disconnection.
• The song is Hynde's take on the whole lockdown experience. Though it's titled "Losing My Sense Of Taste," the Pretenders frontwoman told Uncut magazine she never actually lost her taste during the COVID period. "But it did kick off the idea for the song," she said. "Losing my sense of taste, my sense of smell... and sometimes the whole culture just seems tired."
• "Losing My Sense Of Taste" is the opening track of The Pretenders' 12th studio album, Relentless. It is the second Pretenders LP written as a collaboration between Hynde and the band's guitarist James Walbourne, and their first released via Warner Brothers – Parlophone's parent record label – since 1999.
• The Pretenders recorded Relentless at Battery Studios and Studio Bruxo in London with Welsh producer David Wrench (Manic Street Preacher, Villagers, Courtney Barnett).