My guess is a theme that's throughout most of these songs which is the new generations coming up behind you and seeming to act totally different to how you think it should all be. Maybe you spent all your time trying to figure it all out and before you know it, there's a change of the guard and all your thoughts you tried to impose on the world are seemingly irrelevant. Basically that grumpy bastard feeling you have towards 15 year olds, I reckon maybe for Bowie there could have been an angle of his fame and stature which is ignored by the new wave of artists coming through.
My guess is a theme that's throughout most of these songs which is the new generations coming up behind you and seeming to act totally different to how you think it should all be. Maybe you spent all your time trying to figure it all out and before you know it, there's a change of the guard and all your thoughts you tried to impose on the world are seemingly irrelevant. Basically that grumpy bastard feeling you have towards 15 year olds, I reckon maybe for Bowie there could have been an angle of his fame and stature which is ignored by the new wave of artists coming through.