I never really thought of it that way, though I know the song is about the untimely deaths and downfall of some well known trans-folk and a sex worker or two.
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I always pictured the New York streets of the early 70’s…Time Square was all porno theaters and hookers, steam rising off the manhole covers, metal garbage cans on the curbs and garbage in the gutters, those big yellow taxis driving by…lots of drugs,very seedy. Exactly the kind of place you’d find those Warhol Superstars. 
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Weren’t ‘Holly, Candy Darling Little Jo’ and the rest all part of Warhol’s underground?
Also, I’ve recently been watching the Deuce on HBO, about the sex industry in NYC during that same time period.
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Yes. Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground were part of all that. Little Joe is Joe Dellasandro, Holly is Holly Woodlawn, and Candy is Candy Darling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=163&v=nAHRAKQMfzA
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Holy Anchorman, are all the vocal lines replaced by jazz flute?
I’m appalled and attracted at the same time. Maybe if I drink some Korn Koffee it will all make sense.
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Not really. A couple of them did die untimely deaths, but the song’s not about that since they died later, and I’m not aware that any of them were sex workers, although some of them played sex workers on film. (Every one of them was part of the Warhol factory scene.)
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Joe Dallesandro (aka “Little Joe”) became a mainstream actor after leaving the “Factory” and is alive and well.
Aside from the Warhol films, I remember him as the NY gangster in the first season of Wiseguy who ends up as a bachelor party decoration.
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