Desire Develops an Edge is the second studio album by Kip Hanrahan, released in 1983 on Hanrahan's own label American Clavé[1] and featuring guests including Jerry Gonzalez, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and Chico Freeman.

[1][2] Initially on vinyl it contained an LP and an EP; the CD release via the German label VeraBra differed in the sequence of the tracks and the song "Late Fall" instead of "The Edge You Always Loved in Me".

This was the first album Kip created with Jack Bruce and Steve Swallow, both of whom would go on to be on many future Hanrahan albums.

Le Monde described the album in a review, saying "Desire is a record of jazz rock and salsa the way it should be today: inventive, moving, incisive, surprising.

...Jack Bruce gives one of the unforgettable vocal performances of the epoch...