"Lodger," the third entry in the Bowie/Eno trilogy during the late '70s, is driven by some elusive, yet powerful, force.  After twenty years, it has lost none of its edge for me.  Unlike many other Bowie  efforts--even the great ones--Lodger seems unaffected and determined to be  an entity unto itself.  Each song is a classic--not in the conventional  sense--but in its timeless and vivid urgency.  Bowie's career has been one  of many apexes, but this may well be the highest he's ever gone in sheer  fidelity to his own creativity.