Can't teach a new dog new tricks.

You know that saying you cant teach an old dog new tricks - well today I learned my new dog cannot learn new tricks until we learn basics either. I was trying to get him to clean up his toys and to learn "drop it" - as in I throw the toy, he runs and gets it and when I say drop it he gives it to me. Instead he got annoyed with me, carried the toy off and ended up sitting in the toy basket on top of each and every toy so I could not take them anymore. Hopefully puppy classes will go better...