Down With Boring

Join thousands of music lovers getting the best new tracks, exclusive interviews, and breaking news delivered straight to your inbox every week.

In print now

May 2026

Latest issue variants

Dork, May 2026 (Ruel cover)

Ruel

Dork, May 2026 (Eric Cantona cover)

Eric Cantona

Dork, May 2026 (Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE cover)

Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE

Advertise|Support|About Dork|Privacy Policy|Genres|Years|Sitemap|RSS

© 2026 The Bunker Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.

Hype- THE BEST NEW NAMES, FIRST

Upset- DORK'S HOME FOR ALL THINGS LOUD

Mixtape- DORK'S BEST NEW TRACKS

Play- DORK'S NEW MUSIC FRIDAY EDIT

Dork Radio

Live

Live 24/7

Dork Radio

Soft Cell – Born to Lose (1984) | Track profile | Dork

Tracks
Soft Cell
This Last Night in Sodom
Born to Lose

TRACK

Born to Lose

Release date: 1st February 1984

From This Last Night in Sodom

More on Soft Cell

About This Track

"Born to Lose" is a track by Soft Cell, from the album This Last Night in Sodom, released 1st February 1984. Full lyrics are available below.

Lyrics

Born to Lose

That's the way you go

The city is so cold

And I, I'm so sold

That's why I go

I can't help it

Born to lose

Born to lose

Born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Nothing to do

And nothing to say

There's only one thing that I want

It's the only way

I can't hit it

Born to lose

Born to lose

Born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Living in a jungle

It ain't so hard

Living in the city

It'll eat out your heart

I can't hit it

Born to lose

Born to lose

Born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Baby I'm born to lose

Lyrics provided by LRCLIB

View full lyrics page →

Track details

From This Last Night in Sodom

1984

Album

This Last Night in Sodom

Release year

1984

—Disease and Desire
—Her Imagination
—L'Esqualita
—Little Rough Rhinestone
—Meet Murder My Angel
—Mr. Self Destruct
—Slave to This
—Surrender (To a Stranger)
—Soul Inside (12" Mix)
—The Best Way to Kill
—Where Was Your Heart (When You Needed It Most)
—Born to Lose
—007 Theme
—You Only Live Twice

Explore

More tracks by Soft Cell

Out Come the Freaks

Tainted Love (Nathaniel Knows & Jameston Thieves remix)

Ghost Rider (2025 Version)

First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love

Back To Nature (Marc's Mix)

The Day The World Turned Day-Glo - Full Version

Strange Kinda Dance - Edit

Quiet Rebellion

Murder Your Darlings

Frustration (Mutant Moments Version)

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Extended Version)

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Dave Ball Lateral Mix)

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Remastered 2023)

Fun City (Edit / Remastered 2023)

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Instrumental)

Nostalgia Machine (The Remixes)

Nostalgia Machine

Happy Happy Happy

I'm Not a Friend of God

Purple Zone (The Remixes)

Happiness Not Included

Bruises on All My Illusions

Bruises on My Illusions

Heart Like Chernobyl

Tainted Love (Future Holotape Remix)

Where The Heart Is (Tradução em Português)

Forever the Same (Tradução em Português)

Guilty (Cos I Say You Are)

Northern Lights / Guilty (‘Cos I Say You Are) [Remixes]

Northern Lights

Say hello, wave goodbye - 7" single version

Tainted Love (Die Krupps remix)

Tainted Love (The Sweet Kill remix)

Tainted Love (2XS Remix)

Tainted Love (DJ Rad remix)

Tainted Love (club Crasher remix)

Say Hello Wave Goodbye '91 (the long goodbye - extended mendelsohn remix)

Monoculture (Antoine 909 & Oggie B remix)

Where The Heart Is '91

A Lover Spurned

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Almighty Radio Edit)

Tainted Love ’91 (12" Version)

Tainted Love (Mr. And Mrs. Smith)

Waifs And Strays

Tainted Love (Tommie Sunshine Brooklyn Re-Touch)

Tainted Love (Club 69 Future mix)

Tears Run Rings

Bedsitter (12 Extended Version)

Tainted Love '91

Mr. Self Destruct (Live)

Heat: The Remixes

Secret Life (Demo)

Walking Make-Up Counter

Excretory Eat Anorexia Nervosa

Purely Functional

Occupational Hazard

Tupperware Party

Cleansing Fanatic

Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché

Science Fiction Stories

Le Grand Guignol

Whatever It Takes

Monoculture (Playgroup remix)

Monoculture (Jan Driver radio edit)

All Out of Love

Sensation Nation

Caligula Syndrome

Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime

007 ThemeThis Last Night in Sodom

What! (Extended)

Insecure Me (Extended)

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye ’91

Tainted Love ’91

Low Voltage Mix

Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go / What!

Where Did Our Love Go? [Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version]

Meet Murder My AngelThis Last Night in Sodom

Mr. Self DestructThis Last Night in Sodom

Slave to ThisThis Last Night in Sodom

Surrender (To a Stranger)This Last Night in Sodom

The Best Way to KillThis Last Night in Sodom

Where Was Your Heart (When You Needed It Most)This Last Night in Sodom

Little Rough RhinestoneThis Last Night in Sodom

L'EsqualitaThis Last Night in Sodom

Down in the Subway

Disease and DesireThis Last Night in Sodom

Soul Inside (12" Mix)This Last Night in Sodom

You Only Live TwiceThis Last Night in Sodom

The Art of Falling Apart

Kitchen Sink Drama

Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Voodoo Chile

Her ImaginationThis Last Night in Sodom

Forever the Same

Where the Heart Is

It’s a Mug’s Game

Memorabilia (Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version)

Torch (Extended Version)

Chips on My Shoulder {Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version]

A Man Could Get Lost

Torch (Extended)

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Extended)

Say Hello Wave Goodbye

Loving You, Hating Me

What? (Extended No. 1)

Sex Dwarf [Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version]

Tainted love - original 12"

Sex Dwarf (Original version)

Chips on My Shoulder

A Man Could Get Lost (Single Edit)

Memorabilia (Extended)

Where Did Our Love Go?

Chips on My Shoulder (Original version)

Bedsitter (Extended)

A Man Can Get Lost

The Girl With The Patent Leather Face

Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go

L.O.V.E. Feelings

Soft Cell — Danceteria
Soft Cell — Out Come the Freaks
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (Nathaniel Knows & Jameston Thieves remix)
Soft Cell — Martin
Soft Cell — Ghost Rider (2025 Version)
Soft Cell — First Hand Experience in Second Hand Love
Soft Cell — Back To Nature (Marc's Mix)
Soft Cell — The Day The World Turned Day-Glo - Full Version
Soft Cell — Strange Kinda Dance - Edit
Soft Cell — Gemini Lounge
Soft Cell — Quiet Rebellion
Soft Cell — Jukebox Head
Soft Cell — Murder Your Darlings
Soft Cell — Frustration (Mutant Moments Version)
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Extended Version)
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Dave Ball Lateral Mix)
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Remastered 2023)
Soft Cell — Fun City (Edit / Remastered 2023)
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Instrumental)
Soft Cell — Nostalgia Machine (The Remixes)
Soft Cell — Nostalgia Machine
Soft Cell — Polaroid
Soft Cell — Tranquiliser
Soft Cell — Nighthawks
Soft Cell — Happy Happy Happy
Soft Cell — Light Sleepers
Soft Cell — New Eden
Soft Cell — I'm Not a Friend of God
Soft Cell — Purple Zone (The Remixes)
Soft Cell — Purple Zone
Soft Cell — Happiness Not Included
Soft Cell — Vapourise
Soft Cell — Bruises on All My Illusions
Soft Cell — Bruises on My Illusions
Soft Cell — Heart Like Chernobyl
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (Future Holotape Remix)
Soft Cell — Where The Heart Is (Tradução em Português)
Soft Cell — Forever the Same (Tradução em Português)
Soft Cell — Guilty (Cos I Say You Are)
Soft Cell — Northern Lights / Guilty (‘Cos I Say You Are) [Remixes]
Soft Cell — Northern Lights
Soft Cell — Say hello, wave goodbye - 7" single version
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (Die Krupps remix)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (The Sweet Kill remix)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (2XS Remix)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (DJ Rad remix)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (club Crasher remix)
Soft Cell — Say Hello Wave Goodbye '91 (the long goodbye - extended mendelsohn remix)
Soft Cell — Monoculture (Antoine 909 & Oggie B remix)
Soft Cell — Where The Heart Is '91
Soft Cell — Dancing Alone
Soft Cell — A Lover Spurned
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Almighty Radio Edit)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love ’91 (12" Version)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (Mr. And Mrs. Smith)
Soft Cell — Waifs And Strays
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (Tommie Sunshine Brooklyn Re-Touch)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love (Club 69 Future mix)
Soft Cell — Tears Run Rings
Soft Cell — Bedsitter (12 Extended Version)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love '91
Soft Cell — Mr. Self Destruct (Live)
Soft Cell — I Feel Love
Soft Cell — Heat: The Remixes
Soft Cell — Secret Life (Demo)
Soft Cell — Walking Make-Up Counter
Soft Cell — Excretory Eat Anorexia Nervosa
Soft Cell — Purely Functional
Soft Cell — Occupational Hazard
Soft Cell — Paranoid
Soft Cell — Tupperware Party
Soft Cell — Cleansing Fanatic
Soft Cell — Bleak Is My Favourite Cliché
Soft Cell — Factory Fun
Soft Cell — Science Fiction Stories
Soft Cell — Together Alone
Soft Cell — Le Grand Guignol
Soft Cell — Whatever It Takes
Soft Cell — Monoculture (Playgroup remix)
Soft Cell — Monoculture (Jan Driver radio edit)
Soft Cell — All Out of Love
Soft Cell — On an Up
Soft Cell — Sensation Nation
Soft Cell — Darker Times
Soft Cell — Last Chance
Soft Cell — Caligula Syndrome
Soft Cell — Desperate
Soft Cell — The Night
Soft Cell — Monoculture
Soft Cell — Somebody, Somewhere, Sometime
Soft Cell — Divided Soul
Soft Cell — 007 Theme (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — What! (Extended)
Soft Cell — Insecure Me (Extended)
Soft Cell — So (Extended)
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye ’91
Soft Cell — Tainted Love ’91
Soft Cell — Low Voltage Mix
Soft Cell — Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go / What!
Soft Cell — Where Did Our Love Go? [Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version]
Soft Cell — Meet Murder My Angel (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Mr. Self Destruct (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Slave to This (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Surrender (To a Stranger) (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — The Best Way to Kill (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Where Was Your Heart (When You Needed It Most) (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Little Rough Rhinestone (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — L'Esqualita (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Down in the Subway
Soft Cell — Disease and Desire (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Soul Inside (12" Mix) (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — You Only Live Twice (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Soul Inside
Soft Cell — Numbers
Soft Cell — Barriers
Soft Cell — The Art of Falling Apart
Soft Cell — Kitchen Sink Drama
Soft Cell — Hey Joe/Purple Haze/Voodoo Chile
Soft Cell — Heat
Soft Cell — Her Imagination (from This Last Night in Sodom)
Soft Cell — Baby Doll
Soft Cell — Forever the Same
Soft Cell — Where the Heart Is
Soft Cell — It’s a Mug’s Game
Soft Cell — What!
Soft Cell — Memorabilia (Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version)
Soft Cell — Torch (Extended Version)
Soft Cell — Chips on My Shoulder {Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version]
Soft Cell — A Man Could Get Lost
Soft Cell — Insecure Me
Soft Cell — Torch (Extended)
Soft Cell — Torch
Soft Cell — Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Extended)
Soft Cell — Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Soft Cell — Loving You, Hating Me
Soft Cell — What? (Extended No. 1)
Soft Cell — Secret Life
Soft Cell — Seedy Films
Soft Cell — Sex Dwarf [Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing Version]
Soft Cell — Tainted love - original 12"
Soft Cell — Facility Girls
Soft Cell — Entertain Me
Soft Cell — Sex Dwarf (Original version)
Soft Cell — Chips on My Shoulder
Soft Cell — Fun City
Soft Cell — ...So
Soft Cell — A Man Could Get Lost (Single Edit)
Soft Cell — Sex Dwarf
Soft Cell — Frustration
Soft Cell — Memorabilia (Extended)
Soft Cell — Where Did Our Love Go?
Soft Cell — Chips on My Shoulder (Original version)
Soft Cell — Youth
Soft Cell — Bedsitter
Soft Cell — Bedsitter (Extended)
Soft Cell — Tainted Love
Soft Cell — Persuasion
Soft Cell — Memorabilia
Soft Cell — A Man Can Get Lost
Soft Cell — The Girl With The Patent Leather Face
Soft Cell — Tainted Love / Where Did Our Love Go
Soft Cell — Metro Mr. X
Soft Cell — Potential
Soft Cell — Metro Mrx
Soft Cell — L.O.V.E. Feelings
Soft Cell — I Am 16

Bedsitter
Down in the Subway
Heat
Memorabilia
Monoculture
Northern Lights / Guilty (‘Cos I Say You Are) [Remixes]
Numbers
Say Hello Wave Goodbye
Say Hello, Wave Goodbye ’91
Soul Inside

Showing 10 of 166

If you like Soft Cell

Marc Almond

The Human League

The Human League

Visage

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Fad Gadget

Fad Gadget

Heaven 17

Blancmange

Ultravox

Yazoo

Japan

READ MORE ABOUT SOFT CELL

READ MORE ABOUT SOFT CELL

READ MORE ABOUT SOFT CELL

READ MORE ABOUT SOFT CELL

No coverage available for Soft Cell yet.

Credits

Credited: Johnny Thunders