Perhaps Cornwell's elevation to punk elder-statesman status is not too traumatic because the Stranglers were always a little less obviously frenetic and a bit more composed than their contemporaries, making the leap from then to now seem less severe. Perhaps it's because he was already older than his compatriots when he formed the Stranglers in the late '70s. Whatever the reason, Cornwell has found a comfortable middle ground where he can exhibit the intensity of his Stranglers days tempered with the wisdom he's accrued in the intervening years.