The spinner, who made his name in the early 1980s at Wigan Pier and Manchester's Legend, told Digital Spy that he was not concerned about Cowell's plans for a DJ programme.
"I can't see the excitement of watching a DJ," Wilson said. "What do they want? Somebody to put their hands in the air and dance about behind it? It doesn't sound to me like it would make good TV.
"DJ culture in the past 25 years has just gone through the roof. In a sense my attitude to it is let 'em have it, let 'em take it, let's build again from the basics. It's gone so big, it's gone so overground.
"Going back in time, for me it was always about the music, it was a real passion for music, a love of music... entertaining an audience - you have the music and it's up to you."
He added: "As a good DJ you're learning to see how an audience works, how to work with that audience - it's a reciprocal situation.
"One of the things that got lost along the way for some people is that DJs began to see themselves as above the audiences. That they were the arbiters of what music was, when really it's all an individual thing.
