Are you delulu?

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LCD Soundsystem has a hit "Losing My Edge" in which the former coolest of the cool kids see the next generation of cool and trendy take up space.

Losing their edge to the kids coming up behind.

To the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered Eighties.

To the next arbiters of taste.

I know that feeling of losing your edge - in my twenties I didn't need to seek out what was of the moment because was I was in it. I knew the movies, the culture, the slang. Now I couldn't even fake it if I tried - my side-part trained hair giving me away as I attempt the en vouge middle part.

While it's only natural to lose our edge (fickle as it was to begin with) I still like knowing what the youth are up to. In this installment of Losing My Edge, I examine the new Gen Z slang: delulu.

Delulu stands for delusional and can be use in place of the word itself, or more accurately when someone is acting a fool.

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Curious to see if you're delulu? Meditate on the below:

You might be delulu:

• If you you're showing up to your first in-person work conferencesince 2019 in your former commuter clothes. #thosedontfit

• You identify/support Tom Sandoval in any way.

• You take the barista's suggestion on a new Ethiopian sourced espresso pull even all you drink is a tiramisu/honey/hazelnut lavendar lattebullshit with oatmilk.

• You keep adding to your "hobbies" drawer. Yeah, you're definitely going to go paddle boarding at 6:00 am even though you hate the morning and water.

• You continue buying maidenhead ferns even though there is zero percent humidty in your house

Nothing above resonating with you because you're a well adjusted human who understands their place in the world? Yeah, right.

Now that's delulu.

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