.... Here, then, are 25 great songs about old people: honky-tonk ballads and Tin Pan Alley standards and French chanson and rumba and, yes, Jay-Z, who kicks off his ode to aging with grace with the AARP's favorite euphemism, boasting about "the maturation of Jay-Zeezy." There are paeans to beloved patriarchs, metaphysical musings on time's passage, and lots of anxious songs about diminished potency......

 

Pulp, "Help the Aged"
A cautionary tale for the carefree young from Britpop's foppish poet laureate, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker: "Help the aged/ One time they were just like you/ Drinking, smoking cigs, and sniffing glue."

http://www.slate.com/id/2199897/pagenum/all/

 Al, thanks for mentioning  that Outkast song. It's one of my all time favorites and obscure in its way but totally appropriate for that list.