James later told Debbie Kruger that "['Hammerhead'] was not necessarily about me, but let's say I thought I knew what I was talking about. I wrote it with Simon Hussey; the music Simon and I wrote together and I wrote the lyrics. From memory it seemed to come quite easily". The album peaked at No. 4 on the Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart, while "Hammerhead" reached No. 8 and "Motor's Too Fast" at No. 4 on the related Kent Music Report Singles Chart. "Motor's Too Fast" also reached No. 6 on the ARIA Singles Chart. During May 1988 Hussey was the record producer and arranger on Daryl Braithwaite's comeback solo album, "Edge", which was issued in November. He also played keyboards, programmed the drum machine and wrote or co-wrote four tracks: "You Could Be Wrong" (by Hussey), "Let Me Be" (from Cats Under Pressure, by Hussey and David Reyne), "All the Same" (by Hussey, Bade and Greig) and "Edge" (by Hussey and Jef Scott). "Edge" peaked at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart for three weeks in mid-1989. Kathryn Whitfield of "The Canberra Times" felt the album was "Verging on noddy-land, this piece of plastic is soft-sell. Easy listening, inoffensive, palatable, commercial pop music." She explained that "Hussey (keyboards) appears to have been the one to roll up his sleeves and get to work on material for this offering." Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, opined that the album and singles had "captured a wonderful summer-filled mood, and a sense of freedom and happiness". Four tracks on "Edge" had John Farnham on backing vocals. In May 1991 Braithwaite told "The Canberra Times" Bevan Hannan that he had met Hussey about two years before they worked on "Edge". Braithwaite had heard some demos of Hussey's work and "in 1987 I approached him to produce the album and after quite a lot of hassling he said yes". In the following year Clinton Porteous of "Rolling Stone" described how "Braithwaite was trying to make a comeback... [and] record companies urged [him] to use a name producer... he insisted on the untried Hussey.