Read the following article and answer the question.

i probably wore the poor magnetic tape a little thin right in that spot.i thought of this song off and on in the following years . but by the time i 'd gotten older and knew more about music , that cassette was long gone and i had no way of revisiting it to look for clues . so i always chalked it up to the song of mystery , sacrificed to the ages.fastforward to last night .

Why was the narrator unable to listen to music ?
They lost the tape .