I am trying to change my music library

Basically, i've been trying to 'update' my music library, and I somehow have some old music from my ipod on my iphone library. As far as I know I haven't synced these together because I don't like the music... Now, I want to delete these 70 unwanted songs but it won't let me. I really do not want to have to delete my entire play list and re-upload the songs I want because time is of the essence and that is simply to much fiddling. I can't even delete them off my laptop because they simply do not exist on it, I have tried and tried all sorts of different syncing methods and everything and it just doesn't seem to work!! It's really stressing me out, who knew something so simple to us is so awkward!!
Thank-you x

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