Delete songs from iPhone automatically added from Cloud

I have an iPhone 4.  Prior to the Cloud, when I added songs to my phone from my computer, I added them manually.  If I bought songs through the phone, I could shift them to my computer if I didn't want them on my phone any longer.  Now, if I buy something through my computer, it automatically shows up on my phone.  I have since changed the cloud settings so that it doesn't do this but now I can't get a bunch of songs off my iPhone.  I have tried pulling ALL music off the phone (unchecking synch Music) but the cloud-added songs remain.
Any ideas?

This is becoming a huge file management problem.  The way I see it, the following user flow is the only one allowed by apple. 
1) Turn on iTunes match on desktop/mobile devices.
2) Meander through massive db of music, adding things to iOS device cache as you play things.  Do this long enough and your entire device disk is full
3) Note how slow your device runs when the drive is totally full, since it must magically clear some files as more space is needed for things like installing apps, audiobooks, video, etc.
4) Try to clear up by deleting things on the device (but not from iCloud) one song/artist/album at a time.  Each swipe/delete takes 5-10 seconds due to how unresponsive my iPhone4 has become due to being bursting at the seams.
5) Alternately, nuke all local music using the Settings app(General>Usage>Storage>Music), but this doesn't let you keep any music you already have on the device, forcing you to then RE-download anything you want back.  NOTE: this doesn't currently work on my device - for some reason that pane is empty and the Edit button doesn't really let me do anything.
Does anyone know of a better system (short of canning iTunes Match in favor of "the good ol' days" method of manually or synch-wise management of music files w/o iTunes Match)? 
If not, can we PLEASE get desktop iTunes management of files on the iOS device back when it's connected via synch cable? 
This was a hugely powerful way to quickly clear off or swap which playlists are available on the device, and the feature is completely disabled once you turn on iTunes Match.  Horrible user experience to manually delete one file/album at a time (without really knowing how much space you're even freeing up) on the device itself when you're trying to move around 5+GB of music.  I've dinked around with it for 20+ minutes several times now because my phone keeps overflowing with music.

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