Razor's Edge

[Title: RAZORS EDGE] [Intro – filtered radio voice, turntable scratches, distant crowd] Yeah— Uh! Turn it up, turn it up We ain’t done yet [Beat drops – funky breakbeat, distorted bass, electro synth stabs] [Male Rap – Verse 1] I got one shot, one way out One more reason to shake this town Tick-tick-tick when the clock runs down Kick that door when the beat comes ’round No slow motion, no second guess Little bit of chaos, little finesse Everybody talks when they’re under stress I don’t need luck, I came obsessed [Female] Hey! Where you going? [Male] Straight ahead! [Female] How you know? [Male] Ain’t there yet! [Group] One-two-three— Don’t lose your step We’re dancing on the razor’s edge! [Pre-Chorus – beat building] Can you feel that? Yeah, I feel that! Can you hear that? Bring the beat back! Left side! Right side! Everybody come alive! Three— Two— One— [Chorus – huge funky electro/hip-hop beat] RAZOR’S EDGE! We go, we go, we go Right to the edge! RAZOR’S EDGE! Don’t stop, don’t stop We ain’t finished yet! Hands up! Lights out! Turn that whole thing inside out! One more step— No regrets— Dancing on the razor’s edge! [Instrumental Break – turntable scratches, chopped vocal hits, funky bass] [Verse 2 – alternating male/female vocals] [Male] Back in the room with a brand-new sound Bass too heavy gonna shake that ground Everybody freeze when I turn around Then everybody MOVE when the kick comes down [Female] I like fast— I like loud— I like walking straight into the crowd No invitation No explanation Turn one spark into a celebration [Male] Uh! That’s trouble. [Female] Make it double. [Male] Too much pressure. [Female] Burst that bubble! [Group] One-two-three— Don’t lose your step We’re dancing on the razor’s edge! [BUILD TO BIG AIR – rapidly rising breakbeat] Go! Go! Go! GO! [TAKEOFF / HANG-TIME EFFECT] [Suddenly strip away kick, bass and main drums] [Keep song tempo internally constant] [Rapid high-pass filtering sweeps across the entire mix] [Vocals become distant, filtered and heavily reverberated] [Huge stereo expansion] [Airy reverse synths] [Wind-like electronic rush] [Fragments of previous beat echo into the distance] [Female – distant, weightless] Ooooooh— [Male – heavily filtered echo] How high can we go…? [APEX – EXTREME HANG TIME] [Almost no percussion] [Music feels suspended in midair] [Long shimmering reverb] [Dreamlike stretched vocal fragments] [Thin atmospheric synth frequencies] [Deep bass almost completely disappears] [Slow stereo movement from left to right] [Female – distant] Don’t— look— down— [Male – echo] We ain’t coming down yet… [Female] Higher… [Male] Higher… [Group – extremely distant] Higher— [DESCENT] [Filter gradually opens] [Heartbeat-like muted kick begins returning] [Bass rises underneath] [Breakbeat fragments rapidly reassemble] [Pitch-rising electronic rush] [Male] Three— [Female] Two— [Group] ONE! [LANDING] [Massive synchronized impact] [Full-frequency beat instantly returns] [Heavy kick + funky bass + breakbeat + scratches] [Brief crowd explosion] [Group] RAZOR’S EDGE! [Final Chorus – bigger] RAZOR’S EDGE! We go, we go, we go Right to the edge! RAZOR’S EDGE! Don’t stop, don’t stop We ain’t finished yet! Hands up! Lights out! Turn that whole thing inside out! One more step— No regrets— Dancing on the razor’s edge! [Male ad-libs] Come on! Yeah! Again! Bring it back! [Female] Don’t slow down! [Male] Don’t turn around! [Female] We came too far— [Group] TO STOP RIGHT NOW! [Final Breakdown – funky bass + scratches] R-R-R-Razor R-R-R-Razor [Female] Right on the— [Group] EDGE! [Beat cut] [Female – whispered with long delay] …razor’s edge… [Outro – distant electronic ambience fades]