Okay, so if that's what Bowie really wanted to say, then why didn't he just say it?

This would have been a better lyric (I just copy and paste from your translation/interpretation):

"New Killer Star"

Planes came to the World Trade Center
Planes hit the World Trade Center
I won't look at the holes
Like all the vistors do when they come here
I have yet been there

Planes used as bombs
I'm shocked by the whole thing
Why, Why, Why
Concert for New York
I was there

We, New York, were so unprepared
I, living in the USA, and in New York, never said I was better than anyone in this world
We are all equals
People THINK we see us as better
Wrong

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Much better.



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