So far as I know the song is just saying: start "protesting" again, Bob - 'cause if you don't someone else will, and your career will never recover!
As to the chorus - well, I've never heard that theory about Edie before, but I don't know why he would be identifying her with Pallas Athena (which is where the "brow of the superbrain" imagery stems from).
I prefer the live BBC version (bootleg only) where most of the lead vocal is by George Underwood - who does a much more convincing Dylan impression than Bowie!
So far as I know the song is just saying: start "protesting" again, Bob - 'cause if you don't someone else will, and your career will never recover! As to the chorus - well, I've never heard that theory about Edie before, but I don't know why he would be identifying her with Pallas Athena (which is where the "brow of the superbrain" imagery stems from).
I prefer the live BBC version (bootleg only) where most of the lead vocal is by George Underwood - who does a much more convincing Dylan impression than Bowie!