Rolling Stone never have adventurous choices in their top few, and Edge is really too different from the usual run of lead guitarists to make it there, I guess. I'm not very familiar with the history of pop/rock music, but that much is obvious even to me from IMGL.
He'll always be #1 to me. I've been listening to the Geleen '81 bootleg a lot the past few days, and I'm always blown away by the vigour and originality of his playing even at that age of 19.