How do I manually change the order of songs in a playlist?

What am I missing?

Assuming that you are using the View/As List to look at your Playlist, click on the top of the number column on the left side, so that the songs are in the order they were placed into the list (and there will now be an arrow at the top of that column). Now simply drag songs to the point in the list where you want them.
If the Playlist was in the order of Last played for instance, then you simply cannot drag songs around in the list because it would go against the "last played" order.

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