Eventually, it became too much for Edge. He couldn’t live with the apparent contradiction of being in a band finding a global audience and this humbler calling to serve a local community. He was asking himself questions about the utility of art. The Presbyterian was starting to win out over the Zen. I drove over to his parents’ house in Malahide one evening and sat down on his bed. I had a feeling he wasn’t interested in talking about how this second album, October, was coming on, but I didn’t know quite what was on his mind. I didn’t know that when I arrived, I was in a band, and when I left,
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