Rocktober Deep Cut J: "Edge of the Blade" by Journey

In 1983, Journey was riding high, right in the middle of a seven-year run that included 16 Top 40 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including five that hit the Top 10.  Their 1981 album, Escape, reached #1 on the Billboard album charts and spawned four Top 20 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, including three in the Top 10.  Their follow-up album, 1983's Frontiers, didn't quite match the success of Escape, but it came pretty damn close, reaching #2 on the Billboard album charts.  In addition, Frontiers included four Billboard Top 40 songs, including two in the Top 20 and one in the Top 10 ("Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (#8) and "Faithfully" (#12)).

I do, in fact, own Frontiers (and just about every other Journey album) on vinyl, thanks to my mom's neighbor unloading her entire vinyl collection on me a few years back, and I tend to listen to this album more than the others because "Separate Ways" is Lollipop's favorite song.  For a svelte three-year-old, she can fist pump with the best of them.  However, it's the first song off of the second side of the album, "Edge of the Blade," that I feature here today.  It's a hard rocker, in the same vein as "Separate Ways," and it sounds like it could very well be the song in the background during a training montage of an '80s boxing or martial arts movie.  Yes, it's that good.  But seriously, what a kickass song.  Steve Perry wails.  Neil Schon lights it up on the guitar.  How is this not more popular?