It's not just the aging thing. It's that that song is explicitly anti-materialistic.

On a second hearing, I noticed (with grudging admiration) that they've tweaked the lyrics in such a way as to almost reverse the meaning. The words "all we are is dust in the wind" recur in the chorus; the commercial uses the words "all they are is dust in the wind" - as the car sweeps past other automobiles, they crumble into powder...