Why can't I erase the songs on my ipod on Itunes?

I opened up Itunes and it started loading all the music in my library to my ipod. I stopped it, but now i cannot seem to erase the songs from Itunes. Any help or advice will be greatly appreciated. I was thinking if I let all the songs download onto the ipod i could then delete the songs.

I'm clicking, but there is no tab or anything that
says restore.
On the Summary screen there's "iPod" showing a picture of your iPod, name, software version, serial number and format.. . NEXT there's Version, under which there's the text:
"If you are experiencing problems..." and a restore button. IF you don't see that , then you'll either have to expand the iTunes window or scroll the summary screen.

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