I don't smoke
don't drink
don't fuck
At least I can fucking think.
I can't keep up
can't keep up
can't keep up
Out of step with the world
This is how the song "Out of Step" by the early influential
punk band
Minor Threat goes. The song lays out lead singer
Ian MacKaye's views on the rampant drug use he saw in the early
DC hardcore punk scene. This song is also viewed as kind of
creed by
Straight Edge kids, who live a
clean lifestyle by not partaking in
drugs,
alcohol,
tobacco, or
promiscuous sex. Some Straight Edgers take it a step further and eliminate things like
caffeine and
meat from their lives by going
vegetarian or
vegan.
Ian Mackaye, besides writing the songs that became the anthems of kids rejecting drugs, is well known for starting
Dischord Records and playing in the band
Fugazi.