high and somewhere before the physical crash? That's Low -- that and a myriad of beautiful and weird soundscapes, digital-flesh tearing synthesizer screeches and beep-boops, and Bowie's bleached white voice as otherworldly and thin-souled as it gets. You're right, you're guessing haha. He was still very much on cocaine when recording Low. Not at the depths of his addiction, but still dabbling, and continued to dabble here and there when living in Berlin. The thing about Berlin was that he and Iggy kept using, or having "binge days" as Iggy put it, when they moved to Berlin. He gave it up eventually. General Comment: Balderdashgirl is correct it is about his previous cocaine addiction he made the album low in Berlin when he was trying to clean him self up. You see he foolishly believes he can be a responsible drug user and that he is control whilst in reality he is not