The technology is good and it’s bad. You know what you’re dealing with out there musically, but my head stops at this electronic stuff. I don’t quite know what I’m dealing with out there yet.

In this remark Anka weighs the double-edged nature of technological change in popular music. He acknowledges that “technology” can be beneficial—offering clearer control over sound and production—yet also destabilizing, because it shifts the musician’s relationship to performance and craft. The contrast between what he knows “musically” and where his “head stops” suggests a generational or stylistic boundary: traditional songwriting and band/orchestral practice feel legible, while newer electronic tools and studio-driven methods feel like an unfamiliar terrain with different rules. The quote captures an artist’s ambivalence: respect for innovation paired with anxiety about losing intuitive mastery and authenticity in an increasingly electronic soundscape.