| "One Step Ahead" | ||||
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| Single by Split Enz | ||||
| from the album Waiata (aka Coroborree) | ||||
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| Released | November 1980 | |||
| Recorded | AAV Studios, Melbourne, 1980 | |||
| Genre | New wave, rock | |||
| Length | 2:52 | |||
| Label | Mushroom Records | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Neil Finn | |||
| Producer(s) | David Tickle | |||
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"One Step Ahead" is a 1980 song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz. It was released November 1980 as the lead single from their seventh studio album Waiata.
After Split Enz's dissolution in 1984, singer Neil Finn continued to perform "One Step Ahead" with his next group Crowded House, in particular, the group performed the song live at their 1987 concert in Daytona known as Spring Break '87.
The single's b-side "In the Wars" was recorded in the Waiata recording sessions, but it was not originally released as a track on the album, though it was later appended as track twelve in the album's 2006 re-release.