Getting old

I was once cool. No, really. Well OK, it wasn't called cool in those days. And an encyclopaedic knowledge of early Leonard Cohen did not deliver everything that it was reputed to do. But the pink corduroy flares were surely an indication of something?

Some of you younger people may recognise the names in the following list, lifted from The Times:

The NME Cool List Top Ten:

1 Beth Ditto, The Gossip
2 Faris Rotter, The Horrors
3 Lily Allen
4 Jarvis Cocker
5 Karen O, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
6 Kieren Webster, The View
7 Kate Jackson, The Long Blondes
8 Gerard Way, My Chemical Romance
9 Thom Yorke, Radiohead
10 Lovefoxxx, CSS

At least, I recognised three of the names (four, if Kate Jackson is the same one that starred in the original version of Charlie's Angels; but it seems unlikely somehow).