Adults didn't understand it. The girls you were trying to date were scared to death of it. You didn't care. You knew it was cool. But it wasn't supposed to last.
Rock music is meant to be a generation's thing.
Everybody has one period of time in which the music meant everything in the world. It was their world. Iggy Pop used to take a leak on stage. Now his music sells cars and travel cruises. His time was with the Stooges.