We analytically and numerically study the effect of finite spatial boundaries on the Takayasu model of diffusing and aggregating particles with steady monomer input in one dimension. Exact expressions are derived for the steady-state density profile, two-point correlation functions, and mean-squared density under both open and periodic boundary conditions. The single-site mass distribution exhibits a crossover from a bulk power law $P\left(m\right)\sim m^{-4/3}$ to an edge power law $P\left(m\right)\sim m^{-5/3}$, occurring near the boundaries or the condensate that forms in periodic systems. The equivalence between the two boundary conditions is shown to break down in the case of multipoint probability distributions near the edge. The exact solution identifies a distinct boundary layer and shows that the edge anomaly arises when spatial mass currents, which scale as $\mathcal{O}\left(L\right)$, dominate over the $\mathcal{O}\left(1\right)$ constant flux in mass space. We further generalize these results, using scaling arguments, to mass-dependent diffusion.

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