Help for Newbie!

I have a table with 10 records: 10, 9, 8, 7 ... and so on. I want to SELECT the top 3 records starting with the second record on the list (which in this case is 9.) So the result should be 9, 8, and 7. What would be the correct SQL statement for this?

I tried "SELECT TOP 3 * FROM tableXXX WHERE (FieldID<>(SELECT TOP 1 * FROM tableXXX ORDER BY FieldID DESC) ORDER BY FieldID DESC" but sure as heck it didn't work. Can anyone help?drop the * on the 2nd select and only qry for the pkval :

SELECT Top 3 *
FROM Contacts
WHERE idCont <> (SELECT Top 1 idCont FROM Contacts)|||Thank you, Mike. It works beautifully! The complete statement is:

SELECT Top 3 *
FROM tbl_XXX
WHERE (idXXX <>(SELECT Top 1 idXXX FROM tbl_XXX ORDER BY idXXX DESC))
ORDER BY idXXX DESC

Again, thank you. You are great help.