Gaga opened the 2011 MuchMusic Video Awards with a performance of the song , sporting a bejeweled catsuit and a bob teal colored wig . While on tour in Japan , Gaga performed " The Edge of Glory " and " Born This Way " at the 2011 MTV Video Music Aid Japan . She started the performance while hanging from a giant spider web , with her aquamarine hair extensions stuck in it . Beginning to sing , Gaga pulled and tugged at the web , and ultimately broke free to join her dancers as she finished the performance . On October 16 , 2011 she performed the song during a concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles for the Clinton Foundation . " The Edge of Glory " was performed regularly as the penultimate song of Gaga 's Born This Way Ball ( 2012 – 2013 ) tour where she played the beginning of the song on piano atop a watch tower . She wore a Versace-designed cloth for the performance . In 2014 , Gaga sang a short version of the song during the ArtRave : The Artpop Ball . In October 2016 , Gaga appeared in the Carpool Karaoke segment of '' The Late Late Show with James Corden '' , where " The Edge of Glory " was one of the songs Gaga sang in the vehicle . At her 2017 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival set and during the Joanne World Tour ( 2017 – 2018 ) , Gaga performed the track in a piano-only rendition . On the tour , the singer usually dedicated the song to family members and her late friend , Sonja , who died of cancer . The performance was singled out by many journalists as an emotional highlight and one of the best moments of the tour . In October 2017 , Gaga appeared at the Deep From the Heart : The One America Appeal benefit concert in Texas , joining other performers in raising money to hurricane victims . She played " The Edge of Glory " as the last song of her piano set , after performing " Million Reasons " and " You and I " . The song is part of the setlist of the singer 's 2018 – 2019 Las Vegas residency show , Enigma . Following the performance of " Government Hooker " and David Bowie 's " I 'm Afraid of Americans " , Gaga tells the audience that she is going to a " healing place " . After disappearing from the stage , she returns in a " transparent dress , with a cut-out bodysuit underneath " and starts the performance of " The Edge of Glory "
2011 MuchMusic Video Awards
2011 MuchMusic Video Awards
The Edge of Glory