How to delete manually managed songs?

Hi,
I am getting this problem with iTunes 11.0.1.12 (iOS 6.0.2) where for some reason the only way to delete the song is to go to first "On This Phone">Music then select a song or a few of them and press delete on PC. Now its important to mention that all songs and play lists have been added to the phone manually, meaning i made the playlist on the phone and just added the songs that i wanted from my PC to the play list, thats all. With older versions of iTunes i was able to select the playlist and delete ether all songs or just one while i am inside of the play list by pressing (alt+delete or something) and now the only way to delete the song is to do it in the Music menu which is a huge pain because what if i have 10 play lists and each contains like a 1000 songs, normally i would want to select the play list and delete the songs of that play list without accidentally delete anything else but now i have to go to "music" which shows like every songs on the phone and try to figure out what song goes where and which songs i need to delete
Any ideas ?

Yes i can select anything i want in itunes and this is what i do,
1. Select the playlist that i have made in Itunes, it shows me all the songs that are inside of that play list.
2. Then what? Press delete? or press alt+delete ? because the only thing any of those two actions will do is to remove the songs from that play list and this is NOT what i want. I want to PERMANENTLY delete all the songs from the phone while i am inside of play list using iTunes
Also if i try to delete playlist on the go by swipe on the name of playlist that does not necessary deletes the songs in side of the playlist and deleting song one by one on the phone is just too long. I am looking for the way to delete songs off the phone without going to "music in iTunes". Basically my questions is, can i delete all say 1000 songs inside of playlist say called test using iTunes if so whats the best way?

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