The cosmological event horizon is the light cone at future infinity and the asymptotic boundary of the observable universe: Light emitted within the horizon will take a finite time to reach us, whereas light emitted right at the horizon would take an infinte amount of time to arrive; in a way, light emitted beyond the horizon still moves towards us in the sense that the comoving distance decreases, but we'd have to wait a longer-than-infinte amount of time for it to arrive...
Oh, and by the way, an expansion faster than the speed of light is consistent with relativity. Special relativity only describes local laws of physics -- you and the edge are not "local". And general relativity doesn't have a constraint on a maximum velocity between 2 arbitrary points in spacetime.