''Edge'' is an album by

Daryl Braithwaite Daryl Braithwaite (born 11 January 1949) is an Australian singer. He was the lead vocalist of Sherbet (1970–1984 and many subsequent reunions). Braithwaite also has a solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including ...

. It was recorded between April–September 1988 and released in November 1988. It reached No.1 on the Australian

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for 3 weeks in 1989. Braithwaite toured the album across Australia and New Zealand in 1989 and the album was certified 3× platinum in October 1989.

Simon Hussey Simon Cyril Hussey (born 7 July 1960) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter-arranger, record producer and audio engineer. In 1984 he formed Cats Under Pressure on keyboards with David Reyne (ex-Australian Crawl) on vocals and Mark G ...

was nominated for Producer of the Year for ''Edge'' at the

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, but lost to ''

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''.

Track listing

As the Days Go By "As the Days Go By" is a song written by Ian Thomas and recorded by Australian singer Daryl Braithwaite as the first single from his second studio album, ''Edge'', in 1988. It features singer John Farnham as a backing vocalist in the chorus. The ...

" ( Ian Thomas) – 4:04 #"You Could Be Wrong" (

) – 3:22 #" All I Do" (Thomas) – 4:06 #" Let Me Be" (Hussey,

David Reyne David Nicholas Reyne (born 14 May 1959) is an Australian actor, musician, television and radio presenter. Reyne was born in Lagos, Nigeria to an Australian mother and English diplomat father. The family moved to Victoria, Australia in the earl ...

) – 5:36 #"Sugar Train" (Jef Scott) – 3:42 #"Down Down" (Scott) – 4:37 #"In My Life" (Chris Doheny) – 5:08 #"Edge (

Instrumental An instrumental or instrumental song is music without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through Semantic change, semantic widening, a broader sense of the word s ...

)" (Jef Scott, Simon Hussey) – 0:34 #" I Don't Remember" (

Peter Gabriel Peter Brian Gabriel (born 13 February 1950) is an English singer, songwriter, musician, and human rights activist. He came to prominence as the original frontman of the rock band Genesis. He left the band in 1975 and launched a solo career wit ...

) – 4:09 #"

One Summer ''One Summer'' is a 1983 British television drama serial written by Willy Russell and directed by Gordon Flemyng. It stars David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16-year-old Liverpool boys from broken homes who escape from their grim lives ...

" (Daryl Braithwaite) – 3:43 #"It's All in the Music" (Braithwaite,

Garth Porter Garth Ivan Richard Porter (born 24 September 1948) is a New Zealand-born Australian multi-instrumental musician, songwriter and record producer. He was a member, on keyboards and backing vocals, of the pop group, Sherbet (1970–84), and co-wr ...

) – 3:40 #"All The Same" (Hussey, Lisa Bade, Mark Greig) – 3:57 #"Up-Out" (Andy Cichon, Braithwaite, Scott, John Watson, Scott Griffiths, Hussey) – 3:58 #"Pretending to Care" (

Todd Rundgren Todd Harry Rundgren (born June 22, 1948) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer who has performed a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the bands Nazz and Utopia. He is known for his sophistica ...

) – 3:39

Personnel

–

vocals Singing is the art of creating music with the voice. It is the oldest form of musical expression, and the human voice can be considered the first musical instrument. The definition of singing varies across sources. Some sources define sing ...

* Andy Cichon –

bass Bass or Basses may refer to: Fish * Bass (fish), various saltwater and freshwater species Wood * Bass or basswood, the wood of the tilia americana tree Music * Bass (sound), describing low-frequency sound or one of several instruments in th ...

* Jef Scott –

guitar The guitar is a stringed musical instrument that is usually fretted (with Fretless guitar, some exceptions) and typically has six or Twelve-string guitar, twelve strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming ...

s, keyboards, additional

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are us ...

, additional

drumming Drumming may refer to: * the act of playing the drums or other percussion instruments * Drummer, a musician who plays a drum, drum kit, or drums * ''Drumming'' (Reich), a musical composition written by Steve Reich in 1971 for percussion ensemble ...

* John Watson – drums *

– keyboards, drum machine, producer * Scott Griffiths – keyboards *

John Farnham John Peter Farnham (born 1 July 1949) is a British-born Australian singer. Farnham was a teen pop idol from 1967 until the mid-1970s, billed as Johnny Farnham. He has since forged a career as an adult contemporary singer.McFarlane (1999). Enc ...

– additional backing vocals * Glenn Braithwaite – additional backing vocals * David Hussey – additional drumming * Brett Kingman – guitar (on track "Up-Out")

Track listing

Personnel

Release history

Chart positions

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

Certifications

See also

References