Can't edit address book in OSX 10.7

I'm unable to edit any cards in Address book. The edit optino is greyed out in the Menu bar. Why is this? I have the same problem on my Laptop and Mac Pro. I'm using MobileMe . Is this something to do with it ?

I am on 10.7 & no matter what I did i couldn't find the Library/ApplicationSupport/AddressBook folder that almost everyone insists is there (well a number of frustrated forum users can't find it). I even 'revealed all hidden folders' in Application Support & searched under Spotlight ... nothing, yet Finder>Services>Reveal found it there!! (credit to Linc Davis https://discussions.apple.com/message/20112285#20112285
Now I could delete the Addressbook-v22.abcdmr file. I did this, re-opened my address book app (the Addressbook-v22.abcdmr file returns) and Presto! ... so has my Edit button at the bottom of the Address Book app ... it's taken my a few hours over a few months to get that sorted ... now, back to my life.
Linc Davis wrote:
Triple-click the line below to select it:
~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook
Right-click or control-click the highlighted line and select Services▹ Reveal from the contextual menu. What happens?

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