But he and his disciples think the declines will come too soon, and be too sharp, for the world to adapt in time.
They were just breaking, too quick and too sharp with their pace and their power.
Genius and popularity alone are not enough: despite their brilliance, Bob Dylan and Miles Davis were too taciturn, too mysterious and too sharp-clawed for an audience to feel entirely comfortable and relaxed in their presence.
The United opener had come when Anderson lifted a pass over the defence and Welbeck was too sharp for Johan Djourou as he headed home the bouncing ball from the edge of the six-yard box.
At 33, the former England fly-half is now a veteran - albeit two years younger than opposite number Dan Parks - but his running game was too sharp for the visitors and his passing time and again released the pacy players out wide.
d) Edin Dzeko and Vedad Ibisevic looking far, far too sharp for this USA defence whenever Bosnia break forward, which is often.
We've been trying everything under the sun with him – new rug, new girth, new everything!" The trainer, looking ahead to the King George in 13 days' time, added: "Two and a half around here is too sharp for him now, he wants three miles.
I keep wicket, and our opening bowlers are a little too sharp for me to be entirely comfortable.
"I had four hard fights to get to the final and then he was just a bit too sharp for me," said Evans, much later.
Then, as now, some party elders worried that his tone was too sharp for a national spokesman, and then, as now, they tried to stop him.
