i'm losing my edge to aphids - by Claire Wang

“I’m losing my edge/ To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin/ I’m losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.” - Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem In the 2018 version of Princeton Review’s SAT Test Prep Book, you can find a passage about aphids and their amazing abilities to suck up sap more than three times their weight within practice tests. This was, regardless of what it says about my academic hobbies, my first introduction to the existence of these uncannily translucent green insects. Sources say that while aphids may be considered pests by most people, they have unique and fascinating characteristics that make them unique from many other insect species. If anything, that feels too consolatory to me… every species has “unique and fascinating” characteristics; there’s no need to lie to the Aphidoidea species. You’ve definitely heard the approximate saying, “everyone is unique in their own way.” And there’s always

“I’m losing my edge/ To all the kids in Tokyo and Berlin/ I’m losing my edge to the art-school Brooklynites in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered eighties.” - Losing My Edge by LCD Soundsystem In the 2018 version of Princeton Review’s SAT Test Prep Book, you can find a passage about aphids and their amazing abilities to suck up sap more than three times their weight within practice tests. This was, regardless of what it says about my academic hobbies, my first introduction to the existence of these uncannily translucent green insects. Sources say that while aphids may b