"Edge of a Broken Heart" is a power ballad[3] by the American glam metal band Vixen, that was released as a single in 1988.
It was written by Richard Marx, who was also on keyboards, and Fee Waybill.
[5][6] According to Marx's memoir Stories to Tell, Michael Landau, not the band's Jan Kuehnemund, played lead guitar on this song.
[8] Richard Marx, a popular soft rock artist and co-writer/producer of this song, has a cameo in the video.
[9] In 2018, Vixen released a new acoustic version of the song on their Live Fire album.