Phil Collins says he can no longer play drums while Genesis embarks on the reunion tour

Popular music icon Phil Collins sadly admitted Thursday that he could no longer play drums.

“I’d love to, but I mean, I can barely grab a stick with that hand,” the fragile-looking rocker told BBC Breakfast ahead of his band Genesis ’reunion tour. “There are certain physical things that stand in the way.” (See the clip below.)

Collins will sing with Genesis when he reunites with members Mike Rutherford and Tony Banks for the first time since 2007. But he will leave the drums to his son, Nic.

“I’m a little physically challenged, which is very frustrating because I’d love to be playing up there with my son,” he said.

“He plays a bit like me when he wants to,” Collins commented, for NME.

Collins, 70, has undergone several back surgeries – one of them after falling into the bathroom in 2017. He has been seen with a cane and a wheelchair. He also has diabetes.

Collins won over a new generation of fans last year when two young Indiana girls went viral for popping their drum solo on the 1981 hit “In the Air Tonight.”

But Collins looked like the Genesis tour would be his last on the road as a performer of any kind.

“We’re all men our age, and I think to some extent I think you’re probably putting him to bed,” he said in the BBC Breakfast interview. “I think so, I think generally for me, I don’t know if I want to go out more on the road.”

After previous back surgery, Collins told Billboard in 2016 that he didn’t know if he could do touring drums again due to a nerve injury to his left arm.

Now it seems safe.