Last week, U2‘s the Edge showed the world the definition of irony when he fell off the edge of the stage mid-concert as the band was performing “Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” Shortly after he proved he had a sense of humor about the incident, taking to Instagram and joking “Didn’t see the edge, I’m ok!!”
In a new interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he discusses the fall yet again.
“It was a moment of reverie where I just completely lost track of where I was on the stage,” The Edge told Anthony Mason in an interview for the upcoming installment of CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Osgood. “Out of the corner of my eye I could see the curve of the round and I thought I was already there. I stepped off on what I thought was the stage and I had basically cut the corner. It was one of those things you do only once.”
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Hopefully that’s the case. When The Edge fell, his band members worried that their tour would be cut short to only that show. “Start and end in the same evening,” said drummer Larry Mullen.
“It would have been the shortest tour in history,” The Edge added.
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