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"Out of Touch"
#1 weeks: 2
weeks: 1984-12-08, 1984-12-15
genre: pop / rock
artist: Daryl Hall and John Oates
album: Big Bam Boom
writers: Daryl Hall & John Oates
producers: Daryl Hall & John Oates, Bob Clearmountain
label:
formats: 7" 12"
lengths: 4:21 (album version), 4:07 (single version)

"Out of Touch" is a 1984 song from Hall & Oates. This lead single from their 1984 album Big Bam Boomwas their last Billboard Hot 100 number one, topping the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in December 1984.

"Out of Touch" was covered by Uniting Nations in 2004 and was featured on the compilation CDs Summer Hits 2005, Floorfillers Club Classicsand Floorfillers 3amongst others. Uniting Nations' version peaked at #7 on the UK Singles Chart and remained in the Top 75 for twenty-one weeks.

The song featured in the 2002 console game Grand Theft Auto: Vice City on the radio station Flash FM, and also in the 2008 console game Saints Row 2 on the radio station The Mix 107.77.

John Oates wrote the refrain, "You're Out Of Touch, I'm Out of Time but I'm Out of my head when you're not around." He and Hall collaborated on the music and the rest of the lyrics.