Editing The Edge (section)

=== Vocals ===
[[File:U2 in Sydney (49121288753).jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|The Edge singing backing vocals into a headset microphone in 2019 while playing a Rickenbacker]]
The Edge provides the backing vocals for U2. Their 1983 live album and video release, ''[[Under a Blood Red Sky]]'' and ''[[U2 Live at Red Rocks: Under a Blood Red Sky]]'' are good reference points for his singing (as are the live DVDs from the [[Elevation Tour]], ''[[U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle]]'' and ''[[Elevation 2001: Live from Boston]]''). For example, he sings the chorus to "[[Sunday Bloody Sunday (song)|Sunday Bloody Sunday]]" (Bono harmonises on the final 'Sunday'). U2 used this tradeoff technique later in "[[Bullet the Blue Sky]]" as well. His backing vocals are sometimes in the form of a repeated cry; examples of songs that use this approach include "[[Beautiful Day (song)|Beautiful Day]]", "[[New Year's Day (U2 song)|New Year's Day]]" and "[[Stay (Faraway, So Close!)]]". Another technique he uses in his backing vocals is the falsetto, in songs such as "[[Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of]]", "[[Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own]]", "A Man and a Woman", "The Wanderer", live versions of "[[The Fly (U2 song)|The Fly]]", and "[[Window in the Skies]]".

The Edge sings the lead vocal on "[[Van Diemen's Land (U2 song)|Van Diemen's Land]]" and "[[Numb (U2 song)|Numb]]", the first half of the song "Seconds", dual vocals with Bono in "Discotheque", and the bridge in the song "[[Miracle Drug]]".<ref name="edge-bio"/> He also sings the occasional lead vocal in live renditions of other songs (such as "Sunday Bloody Sunday" during the [[PopMart Tour]] and "Party Girl" during the Rotterdam Zoo TV show when it was Bono's birthday),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.u2-vertigo-tour.com/show355.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050509034118/http://www.u2-vertigo-tour.com/show355.html|archive-date = 9 May 2005|title = U2 Rotterdam, 1993-05-10, Feyenoord Stadium, ZOO TV Tour - U2 on tour| date=10 May 1993 }}</ref> and has sung the second verse of the "[[Stand by Me (Ben E. King song)|Stand by Me]]" cover on a few shows. A solo acoustic version of the song "[[Love is Blindness]]", which is featured in the documentary film ''[[From the Sky Down]]'', is sung by him as well.